{"id":216617,"date":"2025-06-26T01:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/2032-city-killer-impact-threatens-earths-satellites-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:16:29","slug":"2032-city-killer-impact-threatens-earths-satellites-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/2032-city-killer-impact-threatens-earths-satellites-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"2032 \u2018City-Killer\u2019 Impact Threatens Earth\u2019s Satellites, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2032-city-killer-impact-threatens-earths-satellites-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a huge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">asteroid<\/a> smashes into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">the Moon<\/a> in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year there were briefly fears that the 60-metre-wide (200-foot-wide) asteroid called 2024 YR4, which is big enough to level a city, would strike Earth on December 22, 2032.<\/p>\n<p>It was given the highest chance \u2013 3.1 percent \u2013 of hitting our home planet that scientists have ever measured for such a giant space rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to researchers. Earlier this year there were briefly fears that the 60-metre-wide (200-foot-wide) asteroid called 2024 YR4, which is big enough to level a city, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216617","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=216617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}