{"id":137604,"date":"2022-04-01T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/nasa-downgrades-a-large-asteroids-risk-of-impact-in-2880"},"modified":"2022-04-01T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T01:02:56","slug":"nasa-downgrades-a-large-asteroids-risk-of-impact-in-2880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/nasa-downgrades-a-large-asteroids-risk-of-impact-in-2880","title":{"rendered":"NASA downgrades a large asteroid\u2019s risk of impact in 2880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-downgrades-a-large-asteroids-risk-of-impact-in-28802.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthlings 800 years from now can breathe a little easier.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it\u2019s even less of a threat than astronomers had feared.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html\">asteroid<\/a> dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always tiny and long in the future: As of 2015, scientists had calculated that the object had a 1 in 8,000 chance of impacting Earth in the year 2880. But a new analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/cneos.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news208.html\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> on Tuesday (March 29) knocks the asteroid out of the top spot of NASA\u2019s list of known asteroids that are most potentially hazardous to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\">Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthlings 800 years from now can breathe a little easier. A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it\u2019s even less of a threat than astronomers had feared. The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always tiny and long in the future: As of 2015, scientists had [\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-137604","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\/137604","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=137604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}