{"id":16796,"date":"2018-09-29T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16796"},"modified":"2018-09-29T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:25:29","slug":"settle-down-guys-a-skull-shaped-asteroid-is-not-headed-for-earth-this-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16796","title":{"rendered":"Settle down, guys. A skull-shaped asteroid is not headed for Earth this Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Despite what your social media feeds are telling you, an asteroid shaped like a skull is not going to zip by Earth this Halloween.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Asteroid 2015 TB145 looked like a skull when it passed by our planet three years ago on Halloween. But now the object may be a bit less &#8220;humerous,&#8221; because its shape may since have changed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In 2015, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/21\/us\/asteroid-earth-nasa-halloween-feat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid missed Earth by just 300,000 miles<\/a> and was visible to those with good telescopes. This year, the closest it will come is 25 million miles &#8212; which is way too far to tell what it looks like.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Despite what your social media feeds are telling you, an asteroid shaped like a skull is not going to zip by Earth this Halloween.Asteroid 2015 TB145 looked like a skull when it passed by our planet three years ago on Halloween. But now the object may be a bit less &#8220;humerous,&#8221; because its shape may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}