{"id":194958,"date":"2024-08-22T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/apophis-the-god-of-destruction-asteroid-is-coming-close-to-earth-and-nasa-is-planning-to-send-a-special-mission-for-it"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:25:04","slug":"apophis-the-god-of-destruction-asteroid-is-coming-close-to-earth-and-nasa-is-planning-to-send-a-special-mission-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/apophis-the-god-of-destruction-asteroid-is-coming-close-to-earth-and-nasa-is-planning-to-send-a-special-mission-for-it","title":{"rendered":"Apophis: The \u201cGod of Destruction\u201d asteroid is coming close to Earth and NASA is planning to send a special mission for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apophis-the-god-of-destruction-asteroid-is-coming-close-to-earth-and-nasa-is-planning-to-send-a-special-mission-for-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of chaos, was discovered in 2004. Early calculations raised concerns due to its potential collision with Earth, making it a focus for scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of chaos, was discovered in 2004. Early calculations raised concerns due to its potential collision with Earth, making it a focus for scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194958","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\/194958","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}