{"id":205703,"date":"2025-02-06T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-simulated-bennu-crashing-to-earth-in-september-2182-its-not-pretty"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:19:26","slug":"scientists-simulated-bennu-crashing-to-earth-in-september-2182-its-not-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-simulated-bennu-crashing-to-earth-in-september-2182-its-not-pretty","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Simulated Bennu Crashing to Earth in September 2182. It\u2019s Not Pretty"},"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\/ankmTU89X_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it\u2019d take for us to survive such a catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long, long time since Earth has been smacked by a large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">asteroid<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re in the clear. Space is teeming with rocks, and many of those are blithely zipping around on trajectories that could bring them into violent contact with our planet.<\/p>\n<p>One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/first-look-at-pristine-asteroid-dust-reveals-abundance-of-water-and-carbon\">asteroid sample collection mission<\/a>. In a mere 157 years \u2013 September of 2,182 CE, to be precise \u2013 it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0019103521002591\">has a chance of colliding with Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it\u2019d take for us to survive such a catastrophe. It\u2019s been a long, long time since Earth has been smacked by a large asteroid, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205703","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\/205703","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}