{"id":593902,"date":"2026-05-20T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:02:34","slug":"newly-discovered-massive-asteroid-whizzes-past-earth-in-unusually-close-flyby-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593902\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered massive asteroid whizzes past Earth in unusually close flyby &#8211; The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxOcXcwLTlMX0dacXdyc3FzQXRFdzBrNFR6VGVWeFVuNUZZZGhvaXV6Y0tEZWdjcjJBdm9ZTW82Z3lBY3VuMjBHRWhvMGJoTHVNLWVuaG50MXo1SFl0Wkc0WHFLNGgtWHIycEtTMmdrVndSU2xQVDQ4V1o4RXI2VlpjN1RhOGltZDA1bENrN0paVWl4aWJpQnc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newly discovered massive asteroid whizzes past Earth in unusually close flyby<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTFB4bkVUYmpIaU1aa1pmWDZFSUMtN2VqLU9uMndsUEM5VFdISlhEUjNmaXhFMEIxYlh4UjFTa3dGYkswdXlBaFFjbmVhbXh4VTEyMEh5VERjbFc0czk5NHFaRndtclRXUmVEa2lfVWxZd0dQYUl4ajZv?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch tonight&#8217;s asteroid near-miss live online, as the enormous space rock zips past our planet<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC Sky at Night Magazine<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxQclA2TkZQWmhfcHotM0d0dklKOTN4TjlKekVJaVg0UzU1WkdLYjI4MEJKSmE0ZFBvRUcyaHVtODFTejZWVXRma2xMTDU1RFc4ZGUzTG9vMktPT0pydnRTX1RjRThuSk9qM3V1ZkdfemJSeDU0a3MwdklSNWFUa3pPYm5GT2VKc0J3V0ItM3lsZFNIQUtydVBodk1CS3JwZ2pRU1ZNM05XaFhEa1ZYV2MzT19NWVhjM0p5REJhOVp3ODhvUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch an asteroid the size of a blue whale hurtle towards Earth live online TODAY<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Space<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE5rYVdMaTZabWZfem9FYVdmOWtZbHBlbll6SDlod3lxOUwyOTg0djl6YWVkNjlLX0owRXlQeWRHR0ZCT28zdUVveTZRei1DbWFMZVl2VThiTnN6Sy1ibVBLNTV1dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 JH2: Newly discovered asteroid to fly close to Earth this week<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNSHVTWHhrbkNMNlpHQTQ4bjFxTks0ZV85SUxUWFlzYXZNSWI5Q21KLWc4U0RCcnNrVVlwdlU3SkszS00xRUhDWV9yQmpUM18yMWdIejVHbkNkREFNQzJodkgxQ2Y4WVhPVlF6Y3BUdkcwQ1ZKeTlWbDVwTE1id2w0YkpzTDdXaFFSNjUxVkFMbjY0akdvLVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newly discovered asteroid to pass closer to Earth than the moon Monday<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly discovered massive asteroid whizzes past Earth in unusually close flyby&nbsp;&nbsp;The IndependentWatch tonight&#8217;s asteroid near-miss live online, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593902","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\/593902","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=593902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}