{"id":36674,"date":"2011-07-03T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/small-asteroid-to-whip-past-earth-on-june-27-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:03","slug":"small-asteroid-to-whip-past-earth-on-june-27-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/small-asteroid-to-whip-past-earth-on-june-27-2011.php","title":{"rendered":"Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/89e5b_orbit.jpg\" width=\"640\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p>Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500  miles) above the Earth's surface on Monday June 27 at about 9:30 EDT.  The asteroid was discovered by the LINEAR near-Earth object discovery  team observing from Socorro, New Mexico. This small asteroid, only 5-20  meters in diameter, is in a very Earth-like orbit about the Sun, but an  orbital analysis indicates there is no chance it will actually strike  Earth on Monday.  If a rocky asteroid the size of 2011 MD were to enter  Earth's atmosphere, it would be expected to burn up high in the  atmosphere and cause no damage to Earth's surface.  The accompanying  diagram gives a view of the asteroid's trajectory from the general  direction of the Sun.  This view indicates that 2011 MD will reach its  closest Earth approach point in extreme southern latitudes (in fact over  the southern Atlantic Ocean). The incoming trajectory leg passes  several thousand kilometers outside the geosynchronous ring of  satellites and the outgoing leg passes well inside the ring. One would  expect an object of this size to come this close to Earth about every 6  years on average. For a brief time, it may be bright enough to be seen  even with a modest-sized telescope. <\/p><p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/solarsystem\/features\/neo20110624.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/solarsystem\/features\/neo20110624.html<\/a><\/p><\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/89e5b_1205796008215741128-450931028870479315?l=spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above the Earth's surface on Monday June 27 at about 9:30 EDT. The asteroid was discovered by the LINEAR near-Earth object discovery team observing from Socorro, New Mexico. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/small-asteroid-to-whip-past-earth-on-june-27-2011.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}