{"id":2730,"date":"2025-07-29T00:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:52:30","slug":"nasa-tracks-plane-sized-asteroid-speeding-toward-earth-at-47000-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"Nasa Tracks Plane-Sized Asteroid Speeding Toward Earth At 47,000 Mph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Does NASA Spot a Near-Earth Asteroid?\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53Js-_vo3mo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Asteroid to Pass Earth on July 28<\/strong><br>NASA reports that asteroid 2025 OW, about 220 feet wide, will pass Earth at a distance of 390,000 miles\u20141.6 times farther than the Moon. Despite public concern, NASA says this event is routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>No Threat, Just Routine<\/strong><br>Traveling at 46,908 mph, the asteroid poses no danger. Ian O\u2019Neill of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab stated, \u201cThis is very routine. If there was a threat, you would hear from us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NASA\u2019s Confidence in Tracking<\/strong><br>NASA experts monitor many near-Earth asteroids weekly. Davide Farnocchia said, \u201cClose approaches happen all the time\u2026 it\u2019s just part of the fabric of the solar system.\u201d O\u2019Neill added, \u201cWe will likely know its path for the next century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Looking Ahead: Apophis in 2029<\/strong><br>A more exciting event is the 2029 approach of asteroid Apophis, which will pass just 20,000 miles from Earth. NASA confirms it will not impact Earth and plans a spacecraft study during the flyby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid to Pass Earth on July 28NASA reports that asteroid 2025 OW, about 220 feet wide, will pass Earth at a distance of 390,000 miles\u20141.6 times farther than the Moon. Despite public concern, NASA says this event is routine. No Threat, Just RoutineTraveling at 46,908 mph, the asteroid poses no danger. Ian O\u2019Neill of NASA\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}