{"id":205373,"date":"2025-02-03T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/chances-of-city-destroying-asteroid-hitting-earth-have-increased"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:50:34","slug":"chances-of-city-destroying-asteroid-hitting-earth-have-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/chances-of-city-destroying-asteroid-hitting-earth-have-increased","title":{"rendered":"Chances of \u2018city-destroying\u2019 asteroid hitting Earth have increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chances-of-city-destroying-asteroid-hitting-earth-have-increased.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link :<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers have also calculated a predicted impact zone that stretches from South America across the Atlantic Ocean to sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid has the potential to cause significant damage, especially if it lands in a densely populated area like a major city due to it being the size of another space rock that hit Earth in 1908 with a blast equivalent to detonating 50 million tons of TNT.<\/p>\n<p>Though estimates suggest a very small increase in the likelihood of impact, astronomer and professor of planetary sciences at the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/massachusetts\/index.html\" id=\"mol-a914b240-dfe7-11ef-bcc4-33D9553da82e\">Massachusetts<\/a> Institute of Technology (MIT) Richard P Binzel told <a href=\"http:\/\/DailyMail.com\">DailyMail.com<\/a> that it is nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link : Astronomers have also calculated a predicted impact zone that stretches from South America across the Atlantic Ocean to sub-Saharan Africa. The asteroid has the potential to cause significant damage, especially if it lands in a densely populated area like a major city due to it being the size of another space rock that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205373","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\/205373","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}