{"id":164796,"date":"2023-05-30T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/we-are-probably-safe-from-asteroids-for-1000-years-say-scientists"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:23:33","slug":"we-are-probably-safe-from-asteroids-for-1000-years-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/we-are-probably-safe-from-asteroids-for-1000-years-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"We Are (Probably) Safe From Asteroids For 1,000 Years, Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-probably-safe-from-asteroids-for-1000-years-say-scientists3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When will an asteroid hit Earth and wipe us out? Not for at least 1,000 years, according to a team of astronomers. Probably.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, you should get to know an asteroid called <a href=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=7482&view=OPDCRA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=7482&view=OPDCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"7482 (1994 PC1)\">7482 (1994 PC1)<\/a>, the only one known whose orbital path will cross that of Earth\u2019s consistently for the next millennium\u2014and thus has the largest probability of a \u201cdeep close encounter\u201d with us, specifically in 502 years. Possibly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2305.04896\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2305.04896\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Published\">Published<\/a> on a preprint archive and accepted for publication in <em>The Astronomical Journal<\/em>, the paper states that astronomers have almost found all the kilometer-sized asteroids. There\u2019s a little under 1,000 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will an asteroid hit Earth and wipe us out? Not for at least 1,000 years, according to a team of astronomers. Probably. Either way, you should get to know an asteroid called 7482 (1994 PC1), the only one known whose orbital path will cross that of Earth\u2019s consistently for the next millennium\u2014and thus has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164796","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\/164796","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}