{"id":207501,"date":"2025-03-01T00:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/asteroid-wont-hit-earth-but-might-hit-moon-a-potential-science-bonanza"},"modified":"2025-03-01T00:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:18:43","slug":"asteroid-wont-hit-earth-but-might-hit-moon-a-potential-science-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/asteroid-wont-hit-earth-but-might-hit-moon-a-potential-science-bonanza","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Won\u2019t Hit Earth, But Might Hit Moon \u2014 a Potential Science Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-wont-hit-earth-but-might-hit-moon-a-potential-science-bonanza.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2024 YR4 is no longer a danger for Earth, and a (small) chance of a lunar impact could provide great science data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all rooting for the Moon!\u201d Richard Binzel (MIT) is referring to the asteroid 2024 YR<sub>4<\/sub>, which for a few weeks had remained at the second-highest-rated probability of potential Earth impact of any asteroid discovered. Now, although its impact probability has fallen to virtually zero for Earth, it still has a slight chance of impacting the Moon on December 22, 2032.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 YR4 is no longer a danger for Earth, and a (small) chance of a lunar impact could provide great science data. \u201cWe are all rooting for the Moon!\u201d Richard Binzel (MIT) is referring to the asteroid 2024 YR4, which for a few weeks had remained at the second-highest-rated probability of potential Earth impact of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207501","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}