{"id":111849,"date":"2020-08-24T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/asteroid-2018-vp%e2%82%81-may-be-heading-for-earth-but-theres-no-need-to-worry"},"modified":"2020-08-24T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:24:54","slug":"asteroid-2018-vp%e2%82%81-may-be-heading-for-earth-but-theres-no-need-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/asteroid-2018-vp%e2%82%81-may-be-heading-for-earth-but-theres-no-need-to-worry","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2018 VP\u2081 may be heading for Earth. But there\u2019s no need to worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fBLjB5qavxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cyou can rest easy. The asteroid does not pose a threat to life on Earth. Most likely, it will sail harmlessly past our planet. At worst, it will burn up harmlessly in our atmosphere and create a firework show for some lucky Earthlings.\u201d \ud83e\udd14.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Social media around the world lit up over the weekend, discussing the possibility that an asteroid (known as 2018 VP\u2081) could crash into Earth on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed only fitting. What better way to round off a year that has seen catastrophic floods, explosions, fires, and storms\u2014and, of course, a global pandemic?<\/p>\n<p>But you can rest easy. The asteroid does not pose a threat to life on Earth. Most likely, it will sail harmlessly past our planet. At worst, it will burn up harmlessly in our atmosphere and create a firework show for some lucky Earthlings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cyou can rest easy. The asteroid does not pose a threat to life on Earth. Most likely, it will sail harmlessly past our planet. At worst, it will burn up harmlessly in our atmosphere and create a firework show for some lucky Earthlings.\u201d \ud83e\udd14. Social media around the world lit up over the weekend, discussing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111849","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}