{"id":765168,"date":"2023-09-07T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765168"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:24:05","slug":"extremely-close-approach-of-asteroid-2023-rs-at-just-0-03-ld-the-5th-closest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765168","title":{"rendered":"Extremely close approach of asteroid 2023 RS at just 0.03 LD \u2013 the 5th closest on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2023 RS flew past our planet at an extremely close distance of just 0.027 LD or 0.00007 AU (~10 361 km \/ 6 438 miles) from the center of Earth at 14:26 UTC on September 7. This is the 53rd known asteroid to fly past Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year and the first so far this month.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2023\/09\/07\/extremely-close-approach-of-asteroid-2023-rs-at-just-0-03-ld-the-5th-closest-on-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2023\/09\/07\/extremely-close-approach-of-asteroid-2023-rs-at-just-0-03-ld-the-5th-closest-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Extremely close approach of asteroid 2023 RS at just 0.03 LD \u2013 the 5th closest 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 2023 RS flew past our planet at an extremely close distance of just 0.027 LD or 0.00007 AU (~10 361 km \/ 6 438 miles) from&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-765168","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\/765168","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=765168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765168\/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=765168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}