{"id":159768,"date":"2023-03-07T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasas-asteroid-smashing-mission-was-a-huge-success-for-planetary-defense"},"modified":"2023-03-07T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:22:21","slug":"nasas-asteroid-smashing-mission-was-a-huge-success-for-planetary-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasas-asteroid-smashing-mission-was-a-huge-success-for-planetary-defense","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Asteroid Smashing Mission Was a Huge Success for Planetary Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j6JlF-1zmls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By understanding how asteroids function, we can know more about how to knock them off course.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The DART mission moved an asteroid, setting the stage for planetary defense strategies that could avoid collision with more dangerous objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By understanding how asteroids function, we can know more about how to knock them off course. The DART mission moved an asteroid, setting the stage for planetary defense strategies that could avoid collision with more dangerous objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159768","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\/159768","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}