{"id":126460,"date":"2021-08-18T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasa-forecasts-an-empire-state-sized-asteroid-could-hit-earth"},"modified":"2021-08-18T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:23:05","slug":"nasa-forecasts-an-empire-state-sized-asteroid-could-hit-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasa-forecasts-an-empire-state-sized-asteroid-could-hit-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA forecasts an Empire State-sized asteroid could hit Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-forecasts-an-empire-state-sized-asteroid-could-hit-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o\u2026zap it o.o<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists at NASA have adjusted their forecast of an Empire State Building-sized asteroid it predicts could potentially smash into the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of the large rock hitting the Earth have increased. In a press conference Wednesday, NASA said there was a 1-in-1,750 chance the asteroid, Bennu, could smash into the Earth between now and 2300. It\u2019s a higher chance than previously predicted at 1 in 2,700 chances.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Listen to your favorite News\/Talk station now on <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/w-discover-news\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Audacy<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a significant change,\u201d lead research author Davide Farnocchia, a scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/11\/science\/asteroid-bennu-earth-osiris-rex.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not any more concerned about Bennu than I was before. The impact probability remains really small.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o\u2026zap it o.o Scientists at NASA have adjusted their forecast of an Empire State Building-sized asteroid it predicts could potentially smash into the planet. The chances of the large rock hitting the Earth have increased. In a press conference Wednesday, NASA said there was a 1-in-1,750 chance the asteroid, Bennu, could smash into the Earth [\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-126460","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\/126460","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=126460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}