{"id":1223267,"date":"2022-01-18T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223267"},"modified":"2022-01-18T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:54:56","slug":"video-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-fly-past-earth-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-fly-past-earth-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Huge &#039;Potentially Hazardous&#039; Asteroid to Fly Past Earth Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-to-fly-past-earth-tuesday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/05\/wi\/afp_2bd80e579218988ca6bbea448bbeb3e9db04def9-e1526406675576.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Astronomers have their eyes on a large and \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d asteroid scheduled to make a fairly close pass by Earth on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cThe asteroid, called 7482 (1994 PC1), is expected to fly by our planet around 4:51 p.m. ET, at about five times the distance from the Earth to the Moon,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/massive-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-passing-earth-tuesday-how-track\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a social media post Wednesday, NASA Asteroid Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteroidWatch\/status\/1481287446646112259\">said<\/a>&nbsp;the rock was well known and had been studied for many years by the agency\u2019s experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest assured, 1994 PC1 will safely fly past our planet 1.2 million miles away next Tues., Jan. 18,\u201d the post read:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Near-Earth <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/asteroid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#asteroid<\/a> 1994 PC1 (~1 km wide) is very well known and has been studied for decades by our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlanetaryDefense?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlanetaryDefense<\/a> experts. Rest assured, 1994 PC1 will safely fly past our planet 1.2 million miles away next Tues., Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Track it yourself here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JMAPWiirZh\">https:\/\/t.co\/JMAPWiirZh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/35pgUb1anq\">pic.twitter.com\/35pgUb1anq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteroidWatch\/status\/1481287446646112259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The rock boasts a diameter of approximately 3,451 feet and is bigger than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and over twice the size of the Empire State Building located in New York City, according to the Fox article.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be moving at a speed of about 45,000 mph when it passes Earth.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Although it will not make contact with our planet, NASA described 1994 PC1 as a&nbsp;\u201cpotentially hazardous object\u201d due to its size and distance from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA\u2019s Asteroid Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/asteroid-watch\">website<\/a>, \u201cNear-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the Sun, which means they can circulate through the Earth\u2019s orbital neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The site continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that don\u2019t bring them very close to Earth, and therefore pose no risk of impact, but a small fraction of them \u2013 called potentially hazardous asteroids \u2013 require more attention. These objects are defined as asteroids that are more than about 460 feet (140 meters) in size with orbits that bring them as close as within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth\u2019s orbit around the Sun. CNEOS continuously monitors all known near-Earth objects to assess any impact risk they may pose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The asteroid is currently being <a href=\"https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/asteroids\/#\/asteroids\">watched<\/a>&nbsp;and tracked on NASA\u2019s Eyes on Asteroids website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have their eyes on a large and \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d asteroid scheduled to make a fairly close pass by Earth on Tuesday. \u201cThe asteroid, called 7482 (1994 PC1), is expected &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}