{"id":366921,"date":"2026-01-13T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366921\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:57:15","slug":"2025-mn45-newly-discovered-asteroid-breaks-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366921\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 MN45: Newly discovered asteroid breaks records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists have discovered a huge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/38892255\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a> the size of eight football fields hurtling through space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s been named 2025 MN45 and as it travels, it&#8217;s spinning really, really fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In fact, its speedy spin is breaking records &#8211; it completes a full rotation in about 113 seconds, making it the fastest-spinning asteroid of its size ever discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And its size is massive: it&#8217;s about 2,300 feet (710 meters) wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have discovered a huge asteroid the size of eight football fields hurtling through space. It&#8217;s been named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-366921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}