{"id":128314,"date":"2021-09-29T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-super-huge-comet-is-hurtling-through-space-towards-solar-system"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:22:18","slug":"a-super-huge-comet-is-hurtling-through-space-towards-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-super-huge-comet-is-hurtling-through-space-towards-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"A super-huge comet is hurtling through space towards solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-super-huge-comet-is-hurtling-through-space-towards-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk about comets or asteroids coming anywhere near us and mind immediately goes back to what happened to dinosaurs. It just needed a space rock to end the reign of those fearsome reptiles who dominated nearly the entire foodchain. The asteroid that killed dinosaurs was just 10 kilometres across. But now a comet larger than Mars\u2019s moons is speeding up toward the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is a mammoth! Remember Hale-Bopp? The comet that went around us in the year 1997? It was called a massive comet. And Bernardinelli-Bernstein is 10 times the mass of Hale-Bopp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/nasa-posts-image-of-hand-of-god-netizens-are-awestruck-416265\">NASA posts image of \u2018Hand of God\u2019, netizens are awestruck<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about comets or asteroids coming anywhere near us and mind immediately goes back to what happened to dinosaurs. It just needed a space rock to end the reign of those fearsome reptiles who dominated nearly the entire foodchain. The asteroid that killed dinosaurs was just 10 kilometres across. But now a comet larger than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128314","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\/128314","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}