{"id":24169,"date":"2016-03-31T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/could-planet-x-cause-comet-catastrophes-on-earth"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:10","slug":"could-planet-x-cause-comet-catastrophes-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/could-planet-x-cause-comet-catastrophes-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Could \u2018Planet X\u2019 Cause Comet Catastrophes on Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-planet-x-cause-comet-catastrophes-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As astronomers track down more clues as to the existence of a large world orbiting the sun in the outer fringes of the solar system, a classic planetary purveyor of doom <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-03-links-mass-extinctions-planet.html\">has been resurrected<\/a> as a possible trigger behind mass extinctions on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I\u2019m talking about \u201cPlanet X.\u201d And yes, there\u2019s going to be hype.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/astronomy\/9th-planet-may-lurk-in-the-outer-solar-system-160120.htm\">MORE: 9th Planet May Lurk in the Outer Solar System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/32429-could-planet-x-cause-comet-catastrophes-on-earth.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/32429-could-planet-x-cause-comet-catastrophes-on-earth.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As astronomers track down more clues as to the existence of a large world orbiting the sun in the outer fringes of the solar system, a classic planetary purveyor of doom has been resurrected as a possible trigger behind mass extinctions on Earth. Yes, I\u2019m talking about \u201cPlanet X.\u201d And yes, there\u2019s going to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24169","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\/24169","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67856,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169\/revisions\/67856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}