{"id":626155,"date":"2019-08-02T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=626155"},"modified":"2019-08-02T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:18:00","slug":"asteroids-surprise-close-approach-illustrates-need-for-more-eyes-on-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=626155","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid&#039;s surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes on the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Asteroid_2019_OK_observed_moving_against_backdrop_of_stars_small.gif\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 25 July, a 100 m-wide asteroid dubbed \u20182019 OK\u2019 flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet\u2019s surface during its closest approach.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Safety\/Asteroid_s_surprise_close_approach_illustrates_need_for_more_eyes_on_the_sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Asteroid&#8217;s surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes on the sky<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 July, a 100 m-wide asteroid dubbed \u20182019 OK\u2019 flew by Earth, coming within 65 000 km of our planet\u2019s surface during its closest approach. &#013; &#013; &#013; Click&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626156,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/626156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}