{"id":2839,"date":"2017-10-13T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:20:01","slug":"2012-tc4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/2012-tc4\/","title":{"rendered":"See Asteroid 2012 TC4&#8217;s Trip Past Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l1J9RaVu2tztK6iPe\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOn October 12, 2017, asteroid 2012 TC4 passed\u00a0Earth\u00a0early in the morning, flying above Antarctica at around\u00a01:42am EDT.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSee its close approach in Universe Sandbox \u00b2:<br \/>\n<strong>Home &gt; Open &gt; Historical &gt; 2012 TC4 Passes Earth on October 12, 2017<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe roughly house-sized asteroid passed just a bit beyond the orbits of communications satellites, well within the Moon&#8217;s orbit. This wasn&#8217;t close enough to pose any threat, but its orbit was slightly changed by Earth&#8217;s gravity, as you can see in\u00a0the GIF above from Universe Sandbox \u00b2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=6969\">Learn more on NASA&#8217;s website<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor the latest Universe Sandbox \u00b2 news, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/universesandbox\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/universesandbox\">Facebook<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On October 12, 2017, asteroid 2012 TC4 passed\u00a0Earth\u00a0early in the morning, flying above Antarctica at around\u00a01:42am EDT. &nbsp; See its close approach in Universe Sandbox \u00b2: Home &gt; Open &gt; Historical &gt; 2012 TC4 Passes Earth on October 12, 2017 &nbsp; The roughly house-sized asteroid passed just a bit beyond the orbits of communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-history","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}