{"id":114704,"date":"2020-10-19T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-hit-earth-day-before-election"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:16:16","slug":"neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-hit-earth-day-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-hit-earth-day-before-election","title":{"rendered":"Neil deGrasse Tyson warns asteroid could hit Earth day before election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-hit-earth-day-before-election.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one way to rock the vote.<\/p>\n<p>An asteroid with a diameter the size of a refrigerator could strike the Earth the day before the November election, according to celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson \u2014 but it\u2019s not large enough to do any serious damage.<\/p>\n<p>The famed astrophysicist said the space rock, known as 2018VP1, is hurtling towards Earth at a speed of 25,000 miles per hour and may clip the planet on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may buzz-cut Earth on Nov. 2, the day before the Presidential Election,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CGd38Y1gH-U\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s one way to rock the vote. An asteroid with a diameter the size of a refrigerator could strike the Earth the day before the November election, according to celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson \u2014 but it\u2019s not large enough to do any serious damage. The famed astrophysicist said the space rock, known as 2018VP1, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114704","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=114704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114758,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114704\/revisions\/114758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}