{"id":3519,"date":"2026-03-23T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:58:16","slug":"near-miss-day-happened-in-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Near Miss Day Happened in 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Near Miss Day happened in 1989<\/strong>. The Apollo asteroid 4581 Asclepius, the size of a mountain, came within 500,000 miles of earth. If the meteor had hit the earth, the impact would have left a crater the size of Washington, DC. Children can learn more about meteors in general at: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/search\/meteor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meteors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near Miss Day happened in 1989. The Apollo asteroid 4581 Asclepius, the size of a mountain, came within 500,000 miles of earth. If the meteor had hit the earth, the impact would have left a crater the size of Washington, DC. Children can learn more about meteors in general at: Meteors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5424,3529,3530,5423,3528],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5424","tag-apollo-asteroid-4581-aesclepius","tag-apollo-asteroid-4581-asclepius","tag-march-23","tag-near-miss-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24559,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/24559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}