{"id":664255,"date":"2020-08-18T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=664255"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:55:00","slug":"asteroid-2020-qg-flew-past-earth-at-just-0-02-ld-on-august-16-the-closest-neo-flyby-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=664255","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2020 QG flew past Earth at just 0.02 LD on August 16 &#8212; the closest NEO flyby on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2020 QG flew past Earth at just 0.02 LD \/ 0.0000623 AU (9 319 km \/ 5 791 miles) on August 16, 2020. This is now the closest near-Earth object to flyby Earth so far this year and the closest on record. Valid 15:38 UTC on&#8230;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2020\/08\/18\/asteroid-2020-qg-closest-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read more \u00bb<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2020\/08\/18\/asteroid-2020-qg-closest-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Asteroid 2020 QG flew past Earth at just 0.02 LD on August 16 &#8212; the closest NEO flyby on record<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: The Watchers \u00bb Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2020 QG flew past Earth at just 0.02 LD \/ 0.0000623 AU (9 319 km \/ 5 791 miles) on August 16, 2020. This is now&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664255","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=664255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}