{"id":206736,"date":"2025-02-19T05:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/city-killer-asteroid-now-has-3-1-chance-of-hitting-earth-nasa"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:29:54","slug":"city-killer-asteroid-now-has-3-1-chance-of-hitting-earth-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/city-killer-asteroid-now-has-3-1-chance-of-hitting-earth-nasa","title":{"rendered":"\u2018City killer\u2019 asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/city-killer-asteroid-now-has-3-1-chance-of-hitting-earth-nasa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday\u2014making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James Webb Space Telescope is set to fix its gaze on the object, known as 2024 YR4, next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not panicking,\u201d Bruce Betts, chief scientist for the nonprofit Planetary Society told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday\u2014making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting. Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206736","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=206736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}