{"id":673011,"date":"2020-11-15T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=673011"},"modified":"2020-11-15T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:11:00","slug":"asteroid-2020-vt4-makes-extremely-close-approach-to-earth-at-just-0-02-ld-breaks-record-for-the-closest-asteroid-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=673011","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2020 VT4 makes extremely close approach to Earth at just 0.02 LD &#8211; breaks record for the closest asteroid flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2020 VT4 flew past Earth at a very close distance of just 0.02 LD \/ 0.0000451 AU (6 746 km \/ 4 192 miles) at 17:20 UTC on November 13, 2020. This makes it the closest known asteroid to flyby Earth, surpassing 2020 QG which flew&#8230;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2020\/11\/15\/asteroid-2020-vt4-closest-asteroid-flyby-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\/11\/15\/asteroid-2020-vt4-closest-asteroid-flyby-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Asteroid 2020 VT4 makes extremely close approach to Earth at just 0.02 LD &#8211; breaks record for the closest asteroid flyby<\/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 VT4 flew past Earth at a very close distance of just 0.02 LD \/ 0.0000451 AU (6 746 km \/ 4 192 miles) at 17:20&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-673011","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\/673011","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=673011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673011\/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=673011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}