{"id":148846,"date":"2022-10-25T06:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasa-proved-it-can-deflect-an-asteroid-but-spotting-them-is-tricky"},"modified":"2022-10-25T06:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:26:32","slug":"nasa-proved-it-can-deflect-an-asteroid-but-spotting-them-is-tricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasa-proved-it-can-deflect-an-asteroid-but-spotting-them-is-tricky","title":{"rendered":"NASA proved it can deflect an asteroid. But spotting them is tricky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-proved-it-can-deflect-an-asteroid-but-spotting-them-is-tricky2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bad news is NASA estimates that it tracks only about 40 percent of the asteroids large enough that they could cause calamity if they were to hit Earth. To save us, the space agency needs fair warning \u2014 years, not months or weeks \u2014 to muster the defenses in space needed to safeguard the planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we say, we can\u2019t do anything about them unless we know about them, and when they might be a concern for us,\u201d Lindley Johnson, NASA\u2019s Planetary Defense Officer, said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is NASA estimates that it tracks only about 40 percent of the asteroids large enough that they could cause calamity if they were to hit Earth. To save us, the space agency needs fair warning \u2014 years, not months or weeks \u2014 to muster the defenses in space needed to safeguard the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148846","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\/148846","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}