{"id":19472,"date":"2021-02-19T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19472"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:09:51","slug":"apophis-asteroid-will-be-visible-from-earth-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/apophis-asteroid-will-be-visible-from-earth-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Apophis asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aprylete Russell<\/a> –

ST. LOUIS \u2013 An asteroid the size of three football fields\u00a0will pass by a star and be visible from Earth on Sunday, February 21. But have no fear, there is no danger of it hitting our planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more that we can understand the orbits of asteroids like Apophis the better we can prepare,\u201d said Will Snyder, Manager at the St. Louis Science Center McDonnell Planetarium.<\/p>\n

According to experts, the 1,000-foot wide asteroid will sweep across the United States around 11:50 p.m. But in order to see this rare event, you have to be located exactly along its path. You can find that path here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAt home scientists and citizen astronomers will have the opportunity to observe this near-Earth asteroid from their telescope,\u201d said Snyder.<\/p>\n

Apophis was first discovered in 2004 and scientists say it\u2019s expected to pass earth and visible to the naked eye with upcoming flybys in 2029, 2036, and 2068.<\/p>\n

For more information or a fascinating look at asteroids catch the IMAX\u00ae original film Asteroid Hunters at the St. Louis Center showing this month.<\/p>\n

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Aprylete Russell – February 18, 2021 ST. LOUIS \u2013 An asteroid the size of three football fields\u00a0will pass by a star and be visible from Earth on Sunday, February 21. But have no fear, there is no danger of it hitting our planet. \u201cThe more that we can understand the orbits of asteroids like Apophis … Continue reading Apophis asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend<\/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":[4454,2898,6074,3513,15606,9330,15605],"class_list":["post-19472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavenly-signs","tag-apophis","tag-asteroid","tag-astronomers","tag-earth","tag-mcdonnell-planetarium","tag-near-earth-asteroid","tag-will-snyder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-544","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472","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=19472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19474,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472\/revisions\/19474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}