{"id":17691,"date":"2020-06-05T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dont-panic-huge-headline-grabbing-asteroid-has-no-chance-of-hitting-us-anytime-soon\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:34:54","slug":"dont-panic-huge-headline-grabbing-asteroid-has-no-chance-of-hitting-us-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dont-panic-huge-headline-grabbing-asteroid-has-no-chance-of-hitting-us-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t panic: Huge, headline-grabbing asteroid has no chance of hitting us anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_567397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-567397\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-567397\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200605-asteroid-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Near-Earth asteroids\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200605-asteroid-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200605-asteroid-1260x709.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200605-asteroid-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200605-asteroid.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-567397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows asteroids zipping past Earth. (NASA Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is that it\u2019ll miss us on Saturday night by 3.2 million miles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The space rock, known as 2002 NN4, generated enough scary headlines that NASA felt compelled to put out a reassuring note today. \u201cThere is no danger the asteroid will hit the Earth,\u201d NASA said.<\/li>\n<li>The asteroid has been described as being as big as the Empire State Building, but Bad Astronomy\u2019s Phil Plait points out that one study estimates it as being even larger, with a diameter of 735 meters (2,400 feet). That\u2019s not as big as the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck 65 million years ago, but big enough to cause widespread destruction.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers say it\u2019s just a matter of time before a killer space rock is detected on a collision trajectory. That\u2019s why NASA and other space agencies are planning missions such as Hera and the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, to see what it would take to divert a threatening asteroid. You\u2019ll be hearing more about this during the buildup to Asteroid Day on June 30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows asteroids zipping past Earth. (NASA Illustration) The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is that it\u2019ll miss us on Saturday night by 3.2 million miles. The space rock, known as 2002 NN4, generated enough scary headlines that NASA felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4816,4365,4801,1519],"class_list":["post-17691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2002-nn4","tag-asteroid","tag-asteroid-day","tag-asteroids"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}