{"id":86921,"date":"2019-01-22T07:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/nasa-will-attempt-to-knock-an-asteroid-out-of-orbit-for-the-first-time-in-2022"},"modified":"2019-01-22T07:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:02:22","slug":"nasa-will-attempt-to-knock-an-asteroid-out-of-orbit-for-the-first-time-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/nasa-will-attempt-to-knock-an-asteroid-out-of-orbit-for-the-first-time-in-2022","title":{"rendered":"NASA will attempt to knock an asteroid out of orbit for the first time in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-will-attempt-to-knock-an-asteroid-out-of-orbit-for-the-first-time-in-2022.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> If an asteroid were to head towards Earth in the foreseeable future, we would be quite defenceless. <\/li>\n<li> To change that, NASA has approved a mission to throw a \u201csmall\u201d asteroid off course in October 2022. <\/li>\n<li>The aim of the project is to establish whether we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If an asteroid were to head towards Earth, we would be quite defenceless as we have not successfully developed a method that could reduce the impact of \u2014 or entirely avert \u2014 a devastating collision.<\/p>\n<p>However, that may be about to change. NASA has approved a project called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the aim of which is to throw a \u201csmall\u201d asteroid off course in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bi\/2Wao5GJ\">https:\/\/read.bi\/2Wao5GJ<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an asteroid were to head towards Earth in the foreseeable future, we would be quite defenceless. To change that, NASA has approved a mission to throw a \u201csmall\u201d asteroid off course in October 2022. The aim of the project is to establish whether we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact. If [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86921","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\/86921","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}