{"id":217082,"date":"2025-07-03T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sonic-booms-in-the-sky-how-scientists-use-bolides-to-improve-planetary-defense"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:17:00","slug":"sonic-booms-in-the-sky-how-scientists-use-bolides-to-improve-planetary-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sonic-booms-in-the-sky-how-scientists-use-bolides-to-improve-planetary-defense","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Booms in the Sky: How Scientists Use \u201cBolides\u201d To Improve Planetary Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sonic-booms-in-the-sky-how-scientists-use-bolides-to-improve-planetary-defense.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to the planet\u2019s surface. In addition, roughly 50 tons of meteorites fall to Earth annually. Since t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to the planet\u2019s surface. In addition, roughly 50 tons of meteorites fall to Earth annually. Since t<\/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-217082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217082","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=217082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}