{"id":101003,"date":"2020-01-17T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/massive-asteroid-could-be-dangerous-to-life-on-earth-if-it-breaks-up"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:48:24","slug":"massive-asteroid-could-be-dangerous-to-life-on-earth-if-it-breaks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/massive-asteroid-could-be-dangerous-to-life-on-earth-if-it-breaks-up","title":{"rendered":"Massive asteroid \u2018could be dangerous to life on Earth\u2019 if it breaks up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-asteroid-could-be-dangerous-to-life-on-earth-if-it-breaks-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive mile-long double asteroid linked to a one-inch meteor that streaked a fireball over Japan three years ago could threaten humanity in millions of years if it eventually breaks up, scientists wrote in a report published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential breakup of the rock could be dangerous to life on Earth,\u201d Toshihiro Kasuga, a visiting scientist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Kyoto Sangyo University, said in a release Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/asteroid-that-shot-fireball-at-us-could-be-dangerous-to-life-on-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to CNET.<\/a> \u201cThose resulting asteroids could hit the Earth in the next 10 million years or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The findings were first reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/ab4e1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Astronomical Journal<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive mile-long double asteroid linked to a one-inch meteor that streaked a fireball over Japan three years ago could threaten humanity in millions of years if it eventually breaks up, scientists wrote in a report published Monday. \u201cThe potential breakup of the rock could be dangerous to life on Earth,\u201d Toshihiro Kasuga, a visiting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}