{"id":505,"date":"2006-07-01T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/07\/asteroid-avoids-planet-earth\/"},"modified":"2006-07-01T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:33:00","slug":"asteroid-avoids-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/07\/asteroid-avoids-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Avoids Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/41392000\/jpg\/_41392555_rock_bbc_203.jpg\" align=left>Asteroid <b>2004 XP14,<\/b> will sweep within 270,000 miles (433,000km) of the planet &#8211; only slightly further away than the moon, and should be visible by telescope from North America and Europe most clearly on Monday. It is estimated at half a mile (800m) wide.<\/p>\n<p>Don Yeomans from Nasa&#8217;s Near Earth Object Program said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not Earth-threatening.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He then went on to list a series of things which are much more Earth threatening, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.drpokea.com\/letlight.html\">Lightbulbs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/\">AOL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.countdown2010.net\/petition.html\">Species Extinction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stopwar.org.uk\/\">War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/5135030.stm\">Chandeliers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/comment.independent.co.uk\/commentators\/article338830.ece\">Earth<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NASA went on to claim that <b>2004 XP14<\/b> has what it terms &#8220;natural space intelligence&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Any rock in its right mind wouldn&#8217;t risk coming too close,&#8221; said Don.<br \/><font SIZE=1><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/asteroid\" rel=\"tag\">asteroid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/2004 XP14\" rel=\"tag\">2004 XP14<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/NASA\" rel=\"tag\">NASA<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lies\" rel=\"tag\">lies<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid 2004 XP14, will sweep within 270,000 miles (433,000km) of the planet &#8211; only slightly further away than the moon, and should be visible by telescope from North America and Europe most clearly on Monday. It is estimated at half a mile (800m) wide. Don Yeomans from Nasa&#8217;s Near Earth Object Program said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}