{"id":675381,"date":"2020-12-09T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675381"},"modified":"2020-12-09T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:06:00","slug":"asteroid-2020-xg2-makes-close-approach-to-earth-at-0-13-ld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675381","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2020 XG2 makes close approach to Earth at 0.13 LD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2020 XG2 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.13 LD \/ 0.00033 AU (49 367 km \/ 30 675 miles) from the center of our planet at 19:15 UTC on December 7, 2020. The event took place exactly 3 hours after 2020 XK1 flew past us at 0.05&#8230;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2020\/12\/09\/asteroid-2020-xg2\/\" 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\/12\/09\/asteroid-2020-xg2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Asteroid 2020 XG2 makes close approach to Earth at 0.13 LD<\/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 XG2 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.13 LD \/ 0.00033 AU (49 367 km \/ 30 675 miles) from the center of our&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-675381","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\/675381","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=675381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675381\/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=675381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}