{"id":159456,"date":"2023-03-03T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-riskiest-asteroid-in-a-decade"},"modified":"2023-03-03T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:23:45","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-riskiest-asteroid-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-riskiest-asteroid-in-a-decade","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-riskiest-asteroid-in-a-decade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon\u2019s attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.<\/p>\n<p>*Join ESA, NASA and Asteroid Day LIVE from 19:00 CET this evening in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1035494323668639\" title=\"Killing asteroids - live with the experts\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cKilling asteroids \u2014 with the experts\u201d<\/a>, to find out more*.<\/p>\n<p>Initial observations of an asteroid dubbed \u20182022 AE1\u2019 showed a potential Earth impact on 4 July 2023 \u2013 not enough time to attempt deflection and large enough to do real damage to a local area should it strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon\u2019s attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe. *Join ESA, NASA and Asteroid Day LIVE from 19:00 CET this evening in \u201cKilling asteroids \u2014 with the experts\u201d, to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159456","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\/159456","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}