{"id":156575,"date":"2023-01-29T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-warn-giant-asteroid-is-actually-swarm-nearly-impossible-to-destroy"},"modified":"2023-01-29T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T15:23:34","slug":"scientists-warn-giant-asteroid-is-actually-swarm-nearly-impossible-to-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-warn-giant-asteroid-is-actually-swarm-nearly-impossible-to-destroy","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Warn Giant Asteroid Is Actually Swarm, Nearly Impossible to Destroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-warn-giant-asteroid-is-actually-swarm-nearly-impossible-to-destroy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that some asteroids that are largely made from small pieces of rubble could be very difficult to deflect if one were to ever hurtle towards Earth, a terrifying finding that could force us to reconsider our asteroid defense strategies.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an especially pertinent topic considering NASA\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/asteroid-images-nasa-planetary-defense\" class=\"\">successful deflection<\/a> of asteroid Didymos by smashing its Double Asteroid Reduction Test (DART) spacecraft into it last year, a proof of concept mission meant to investigate ways for humanity to protect itself from asteroid threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that some asteroids that are largely made from small pieces of rubble could be very difficult to deflect if one were to ever hurtle towards Earth, a terrifying finding that could force us to reconsider our asteroid defense strategies. It\u2019s an especially pertinent topic considering NASA\u2019s recent successful deflection of asteroid Didymos [\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-156575","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\/156575","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=156575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}