{"id":122179,"date":"2021-05-01T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/in-a-nasa-simulation-of-an-asteroid-impact-scientists-concluded-they-couldnt-stop-a-space-rock-from-decimating-europe"},"modified":"2021-05-09T05:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:47:28","slug":"in-a-nasa-simulation-of-an-asteroid-impact-scientists-concluded-they-couldnt-stop-a-space-rock-from-decimating-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/in-a-nasa-simulation-of-an-asteroid-impact-scientists-concluded-they-couldnt-stop-a-space-rock-from-decimating-europe","title":{"rendered":"In a NASA simulation of an asteroid impact, scientists concluded they couldn\u2019t stop a space rock from decimating Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-nasa-simulation-of-an-asteroid-impact-scientists-concluded-they-couldnt-stop-a-space-rock-from-decimating-europe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists around the world have been bamboozled this week by a fictitious asteroid heading toward Earth.<\/p>\n<p>A group of experts from US and European space agencies attended a week-long exercise led by NASA in which they faced a hypothetical scenario: An asteroid 35 million miles away was approaching the planet and could hit within six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists around the world have been bamboozled this week by a fictitious asteroid heading toward Earth. A group of experts from US and European space agencies attended a week-long exercise led by NASA in which they faced a hypothetical scenario: An asteroid 35 million miles away was approaching the planet and could hit within six [\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-122179","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\/122179","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=122179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122421,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122179\/revisions\/122421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}