{"id":141168,"date":"2020-12-24T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/giant-asteroid-to-zip-past-earth-on-christmas-day\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:17:19","slug":"giant-asteroid-to-zip-past-earth-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/giant-asteroid-to-zip-past-earth-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#Giant asteroid to zip past Earth on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Giant asteroid to zip past Earth on Christmas Day<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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NASA is keeping an eye on a large asteroid that is set to zip past Earth on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

The space rock 501647 (2014 SD224) is on the US space agency\u2019s \u201cClose App<\/a>roach\u201d list and could be up to 689 feet wide.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s as long as two football pitches.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s predicted to come within 1.9 million miles of Earth.<\/p>\n

This may seem like it\u2019s no risk at all but in terms of space that is pretty close.<\/p>\n

Any fast moving space object that comes within around 4.65 million miles is considered to be \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d by cautious space organizations.<\/p>\n

The space rock is expected to shoot past our planet on December 25.<\/p>\n

It should be at its closest at around 3:20 pm ET.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0NASA\u2019s Close Approach table<\/a>, a much smaller asteroid called 2020 XY will also fly past much earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

This asteroid could be up to 144-feet wide but should be much further away.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s predicted to shoot past at 3.6 million miles from Earth.<\/p>\n

The bigger and closer approaching Asteroid 501647 (2014 SD224) is travel<\/a>ing at a speed of around 22,000 mph.<\/p>\n

NASA has labelled both asteroids as Near Earth Objects (NEOs).<\/p>\n

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Asteroid 501647 (2014 SD224) will pass very close to Earth on Christmas Day, as seen in this NASA JPL model.<\/figcaption>
NASA JPL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Giant asteroid to zip past Earth on Christmas Day” NASA is keeping an eye on a large asteroid that is set to zip past Earth on Christmas Day. The space rock 501647 (2014 SD224) is on the US space agency\u2019s \u201cClose Approach\u201d list and could be up to 689 feet wide. That\u2019s as long as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/asteroid-earth-illustration-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[87636,72173,74503,5026,5019],"class_list":["post-141168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-24-20","tag-asteroids","tag-earth","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}