{"id":206509,"date":"2025-02-15T06:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-city-destroying-asteroid-has-suddenly-become-more-likely-to-hit-earth"},"modified":"2025-02-15T06:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:08:13","slug":"a-city-destroying-asteroid-has-suddenly-become-more-likely-to-hit-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-city-destroying-asteroid-has-suddenly-become-more-likely-to-hit-earth","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018city-destroying\u2019 asteroid has suddenly become more likely to hit Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-city-destroying-asteroid-has-suddenly-become-more-likely-to-hit-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The odds of a \u2018city-destroying\u2019 asteroid hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/planet-earth\" target=\"_blank\">Earth<\/a> in less than 10 years have risen.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System and it\u2019s now at the top of NASA\u2019s Sentry Risk Table and European Space Agency\u2019s NEO (near Earth objects) impact Risk List.<\/p>\n<p>For a full breakdown of the implications of the asteroid, head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/asteroid-earth-2024-yr4-nasa\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odds of a \u2018city-destroying\u2019 asteroid hitting Earth in less than 10 years have risen. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found by NASA\u2019s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System and it\u2019s now at the top of NASA\u2019s Sentry Risk Table and European Space Agency\u2019s NEO (near Earth objects) impact Risk List. For a full breakdown of the [\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-206509","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\/206509","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=206509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}