{"id":172271,"date":"2023-09-18T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/armageddon-style-mission-to-stop-asteroid-bennu-collision-with-earth-ends-this-week"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:23:42","slug":"armageddon-style-mission-to-stop-asteroid-bennu-collision-with-earth-ends-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/armageddon-style-mission-to-stop-asteroid-bennu-collision-with-earth-ends-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon-style mission to stop asteroid Bennu collision with Earth ends this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/armageddon-style-mission-to-stop-asteroid-bennu-collision-with-earth-ends-this-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is edging closer to the conclusion of its ambitious seven-year mission, aiming to prevent a catastrophic collision of a massive asteroid named <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/asteroids-comets-and-meteors\/asteroids\/101955-bennu\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bennu<\/a> with Earth. Recent findings have indicated that there\u2019s a 1 in 2,700 chance of Bennu slamming into Earth on September 24, 2182.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly the size of the iconic Empire State Building, Bennu spans about a third of a mile wide. The potential aftermath of its predicted collision with Earth could equate to the explosive energy of 22 atomic bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid makes its presence felt by passing Earth approximately every six years. However, scientists anticipate that its most perilous close encounter could be a mere 159 years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is edging closer to the conclusion of its ambitious seven-year mission, aiming to prevent a catastrophic collision of a massive asteroid named Bennu with Earth. Recent findings have indicated that there\u2019s a 1 in 2,700 chance of Bennu slamming into Earth on September 24, 2182. Roughly the size of the iconic Empire State Building, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172271","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=172271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}