{"id":737608,"date":"2022-10-12T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737608"},"modified":"2022-10-12T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:30:00","slug":"30-000-near-earth-asteroids-discovered-and-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737608","title":{"rendered":"30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Artist_s_impression_of_asteroid_21_Lutetia_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have now discovered 30 039 near-Earth asteroids in the Solar System \u2013 rocky bodies orbiting the Sun on a path that brings them close to Earth\u2019s orbit. The majority of these were discovered in the last decade, showing how our ability to detect potentially risky asteroids is rapidly improving.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Space_Safety\/Planetary_Defence\/30_000_near-Earth_asteroids_discovered_and_rising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have now discovered 30 039 near-Earth asteroids in the Solar System \u2013 rocky bodies orbiting the Sun on a path that brings them close to Earth\u2019s orbit. The majority&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737609,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737608","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\/737608","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=737608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}