{"id":18638,"date":"2020-06-05T14:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18638"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:41:02","slug":"nasa-keeping-tabs-on-stadium-sized-asteroid-headed-toward-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/nasa-keeping-tabs-on-stadium-sized-asteroid-headed-toward-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Keeping Tabs on Stadium-Sized Asteroid Headed Toward Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amy Furr<\/a> – June 4, 2020<\/p>\n

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday that it was keeping an eye on several asteroids moving closer to Earth in the next few days.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the agency\u2019s asteroid watch, the largest of the five currently being tracked<\/a> is 1,100 feet wide, roughly the size of a stadium,\u201d WMBF reported.<\/p>\n

However, the massive asteroid, expected to be nearest the Earth on Saturday, was not supposed to be a threat because the closest it was predicted to come was 3.16 million miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are three others the size of a plane and one the size of a house also making their way<\/a> to earth over the next few days,\u201d according to Fox 2 Now.<\/p>\n

\u201cScientists also don\u2019t believe there are any concerns from those asteroids either. The closest one is expected to come within 1,830,000 miles of earth later today,\u201d the article noted.<\/p>\n

On its website, NASA posted<\/a>\u00a0an Asteroid Watch Widget to\u00a0track\u00a0the asteroids and comets that would make relatively close approaches to our planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Widget displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object,\u201d the site read.<\/p>\n

Although it was unlikely for an asteroid to collide with Earth in the near future, scientists from all over the world gathered<\/a> at a 2019 conference to discuss how to respond to one big enough to destroy a major city, according to CBS News.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we have to do is change its speed a little faster or a little slower so that when it crosses Earth\u2019s orbit, it crosses either in front of us or behind us,\u201d stated Dr. Lori Glaze, who is the director of planetary science at NASA.<\/p>\n

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Amy Furr – June 4, 2020 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday that it was keeping an eye on several asteroids moving closer to Earth in the next few days. \u201cAccording to the agency\u2019s asteroid watch, the largest of the five currently being tracked is 1,100 feet wide, roughly the size of … Continue reading NASA Keeping Tabs on Stadium-Sized Asteroid Headed Toward Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1282],"tags":[2898,15006,36,15007,3513,1677,8378],"class_list":["post-18638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavenly-signs","tag-asteroid","tag-asteroid-watch","tag-disaster","tag-dr-lori-glaze","tag-earth","tag-nasa","tag-planetary-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4QC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18640,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638\/revisions\/18640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}