{"id":26080,"date":"2009-03-02T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/02\/duck-2009-dd45-is-flying-by\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T07:21:09","slug":"duck-2009-dd45-is-flying-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/duck-2009-dd45-is-flying-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck! 2009 DD45 is flying by"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Late word out of the IAU&#8217;s Minor Planet Center: a small asteroid will pass close to Earth [on] &#8230;March 2nd &#8230; at 13:44 Universal Time. How close? The MPC&#8217;s Timothy Spahr calculates that it&#8217;ll be 0.00047 astronomical unit from Earth&#8217;s center. That&#8217;s only about 40,000 miles (63,500 km) up &#8212; well inside the Moon&#8217;s orbit and roughly twice the altitude of most communications satellites!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This object is about 30 meters across.  If it struck a dinosaur, it would probably kill it. But, unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/community\/skyblog\/newsblog\/30686199.html\">this object that struck the earth recently<\/a>, this asteroid is going to fly by.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, people in Tahiti will have\/had a close enough look to read the serial numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/highlights\/40504617.html\">Details here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late word out of the IAU&#8217;s Minor Planet Center: a small asteroid will pass close to Earth [on] &#8230;March 2nd &#8230; at 13:44 Universal Time. How close? The MPC&#8217;s Timothy Spahr calculates that it&#8217;ll be 0.00047 astronomical unit from Earth&#8217;s center. That&#8217;s only about 40,000 miles (63,500 km) up &#8212; well inside the Moon&#8217;s orbit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/duck-2009-dd45-is-flying-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duck! 2009 DD45 is flying by<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ME","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}