{"id":160657,"date":"2023-03-19T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-leaning-tower-of-pisa-sized-asteroid-will-sweep"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:06:35","slug":"a-leaning-tower-of-pisa-sized-asteroid-will-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-leaning-tower-of-pisa-sized-asteroid-will-sweep","title":{"rendered":"A Leaning Tower of Pisa-Sized Asteroid Will Sweep by Earth in 2046"},"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\/duVIi0WxL3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered asteroid called 2023 DW has generated quite a buzz over the past week due to an estimated 1-in-670 chance of impact on Valentine\u2019s Day 2046. But despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteroidWatch\/status\/1633234541526523904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">NASA advisory<\/a> and the resulting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-11835731\/NASA-warns-city-destroying-asteroid-smash-Earth-Valentines-Day-2046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">scary headlines<\/a>, there\u2019s no need to put an asteroid doomsday on your day planner for that date.<\/p>\n<p>The risk assessment doesn\u2019t have as much to do with the probabilistic roll of the cosmic dice as it does with the uncertainty that\u2019s associated with a limited set of astronomical observations. If the case of 2023 DW plays out the way all previous asteroid scares have gone over the course of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna6751433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">nearly 20 years<\/a>, and further observations will reduce the risk to zero.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the hubbub over a space rock that could be as wide as 165 feet (50 meters) highlights a couple of trends to watch for: We\u2019re likely to get more of these asteroid alerts in the years to come, and NASA is likely to devote more attention to heading off potentially dangerous near-Earth objects, or NEOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered asteroid called 2023 DW has generated quite a buzz over the past week due to an estimated 1-in-670 chance of impact on Valentine\u2019s Day 2046. But despite a NASA advisory and the resulting scary headlines, there\u2019s no need to put an asteroid doomsday on your day planner for that date. The risk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160657","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=160657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164341,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160657\/revisions\/164341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}