{"id":135051,"date":"2022-02-01T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/humanity-could-survive-a-planet-killer-asteroid-a-new-study-says"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:46:18","slug":"humanity-could-survive-a-planet-killer-asteroid-a-new-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/humanity-could-survive-a-planet-killer-asteroid-a-new-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Humanity Could Survive A \u2019Planet-Killer\u2019 Asteroid, A New Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanity-could-survive-a-planet-killer-asteroid-a-new-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 66 million years ago, a \u201cplanet killer\u201d \u2014 a 10-kilometer-wide rocky asteroid \u2014 hit Earth. The Chicxulub impact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidbressan\/2021\/02\/24\/scientists-find-traces-of-asteroid-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs\/?sh=28686753584d\">caused a mass extinction on a planetary scale<\/a>, killing off an estimated 76 percent of all species living on Earth at the time, including the dinosaurs. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2201.10663.pdf\">a study published by Philip Lubin and Alexander N. Cohen<\/a>, both physicists at the University of California in Santa Barbara, there is a chance that humanity could survive such a similar impact happening in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>There currently are about 1,200 asteroids on a publicly available <a href=\"https:\/\/neo.ssa.esa.int\/risk-list\">asteroid risk list<\/a>, but all are smaller than one kilometer. The probability of a Chicxulub sized asteroid (5 to 15 kilometers across) hitting Earth is once in a billion years \u2014 very low, but not impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 66 million years ago, a \u201cplanet killer\u201d \u2014 a 10-kilometer-wide rocky asteroid \u2014 hit Earth. The Chicxulub impact caused a mass extinction on a planetary scale, killing off an estimated 76 percent of all species living on Earth at the time, including the dinosaurs. According to a study published by Philip Lubin and Alexander [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135051","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}