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9.8-foot asteroid zoomed past Earth in surprise close encounter; astronomers spotted it hours later | Hindustan Times<\/a>  Hindustan TimesThat was close! Huge asteroid comes within 300 miles of hitting Earth – and NASA only noticed AFTER the close encounter<\/a>  Daily MailHuge asteroid comes within 300 miles of hitting Earth – and NASA only noticed AFTER the encounter<\/a>  MSNSurprise asteroid flies by Earth at only 250 miles away (video)<\/a>  SpaceAsteroid 2025 TF flew just 420 km (260 miles) above Antarctica, second-closest flyby on record<\/a>  The Watchers – Watching the world evolve and transform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9.8-foot asteroid zoomed past Earth in surprise close encounter; astronomers spotted it hours later | Hindustan Times  Hindustan TimesThat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-65332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}