The Asteroid 2002 NN4

Jun 06, 2020
Todays' morning, seeing some pieces of news, I read one with the headline
"An asteroid that could be as big as the CN Tower will hurtle past Earth this weekend".
As a Datanaut, I decided to verify on api.nasa.gov, of course.
It is not complicated.
I used the RESTful web service called "Asteroids - NeoWs" and its "Neo - Feed" method using the date filter.
https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2020-06-06&end_date=2020-06-06&api_key=DEMO_KEY
The most important part of the result in JSON format:
                  
{
    "links":{
        "self":"http://www.neowsapp.com/rest/v1/neo/2163348?api_key=DEMO_KEY"
    },
    "id":"2163348",
    "neo_reference_id":"2163348",
    "name":"163348 (2002 NN4)",
    "nasa_jpl_url":"http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2163348",
    "absolute_magnitude_h":20.1,
    "estimated_diameter":{
        "kilometers":{
            "estimated_diameter_min":0.2538370294,
            "estimated_diameter_max":0.5675968529
        },
        "meters":{
            "estimated_diameter_min":253.8370293645,
            "estimated_diameter_max":567.5968528656
        },
        "miles":{
            "estimated_diameter_min":0.1577269688,
            "estimated_diameter_max":0.3526882241
        },
        "feet":{
            "estimated_diameter_min":832.7986794202,
            "estimated_diameter_max":1862.1944587557
        }
    },
    "is_potentially_hazardous_asteroid":true,
    "close_approach_data":[
        {
            "close_approach_date":"2020-06-06",
            "close_approach_date_full":"2020-Jun-06 03:20",
            "epoch_date_close_approach":1591413600000,
            "relative_velocity":{
                "kilometers_per_second":"11.1461805769",
                "kilometers_per_hour":"40126.2500767766",
                "miles_per_hour":"24932.8913324282"
            },
            "miss_distance":{
                "astronomical":"0.0340483556",
                "lunar":"13.2448103284",
                "kilometers":"5093561.474762572",
                "miles":"3164992.3377726136"
            },
            "orbiting_body":"Earth"
        }
    ],
    "is_sentry_object":false
    }
}
Let's check information based on the piece of news:

Here is more details about the asteroid via another method:
https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/neo/2163348?api_key=DEMO_KEY

NASA and other space agencies give us lots of materials to analyze, verify, and prove the facts.
This task is awesome when using APIs and datasets.
Go hacking!

References:
ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/an-asteroid-that-could-be-as-big-as-the-cn-tower-will-hurtle-past-earth-this-weekend-1.4968594
api.nasa.gov
cntower.ca/site_Files/Content/PDF/Facts_at_a_Glance_2013.pdf
nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Distance_to_the_Moon.pdf

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