{"id":668,"date":"2025-01-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:56:23","slug":"nasa-spotted-a-big-asteroid-that-may-hit-earth-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/nasa-spotted-a-big-asteroid-that-may-hit-earth-what-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA spotted a big asteroid that may hit Earth \u2014 what you should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nasa-spotted-a-big-asteroid-that-may-hit-earth-what-you-shou_4uj1.640.jpg\">&#8220;A few meters off is a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually good news that <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/27468\/the-farthest-away-pictures-of-earth-ever-taken\" target=\"_blank\">Earth<\/a> in 2032.<\/p>\n<p>It means our <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-asteroid-planetary-defense-detection\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid-sleuthing telescopes<\/a> are working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These things come through on a regular basis,&#8221; Jason Steffen, an astronomer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A few meters off is a lot.&#8221; It&#8217;s actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}