{"id":121673,"date":"2021-04-17T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/these-are-the-asteroids-to-worry-about"},"modified":"2021-04-17T01:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T08:22:23","slug":"these-are-the-asteroids-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/these-are-the-asteroids-to-worry-about","title":{"rendered":"These are the asteroids to worry about"},"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\/4Wrc4fHSCpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hawking thought an asteroid impact posed the greatest threat to life on Earth. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video. For 50% off your first month of any crate, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/kiwico.com\/veritasium50\">https:\/\/kiwico.com\/veritasium50<\/a><br \/> For other potential world ending catastrophes, check out Domain of Science: <a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/DoS\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/DoS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to:<br \/> Prof. Dave Jewitt from UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences.<br \/> Prof. Mark Boslough from Sandia National Labs.<br \/> Scott Manley: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/szyzyg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/szyzyg<\/a>.<br \/> Ryan Wyatt at Morrison Planetarium.<br \/> Prof. Amy Mainzer.<br \/> Alexandr Ivanov for the opening shot of Chelyabinsk Meteor.<\/p>\n<p>Maps of Asteroid Impacts \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/Map\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time passing animation from Universe Sandbox \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/\">http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opposition Effect \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/Belskaya2000\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/Belskaya2000<\/a><br \/> Belskaya, I. N., &amp; Shevchenko, V. G. (2000). Opposition effect of asteroids. Icarus, 147, 94\u2013105.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially Hazardous Asteroids \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/Perna2013\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/Perna2013<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/these-are-the-asteroids-to-worry-about\">Continue reading \u201cThese are the asteroids to worry about\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking thought an asteroid impact posed the greatest threat to life on Earth. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video. For 50% off your first month of any crate, go to https:\/\/kiwico.com\/veritasium50 For other potential world ending catastrophes, check out Domain of Science: https:\/\/ve42.co\/DoS Special thanks to: Prof. Dave Jewitt from UCLA Earth, Planetary, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,1965,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-mapping","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121673","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}