{"id":88457,"date":"2019-03-06T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/asteroid-research-points-to-planetary-defense-issues"},"modified":"2019-03-06T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:42:47","slug":"asteroid-research-points-to-planetary-defense-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/asteroid-research-points-to-planetary-defense-issues","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Research Points to Planetary Defense Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-research-points-to-planetary-defense-issues2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not as easy as the movies show. Say it isn\u2019t so.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, to be published in the March 15 print issue of <em>Icarus<\/em>, can aid in the creation of asteroid impact and deflection strategies, increase understanding of solar system formation, and help design asteroid mining efforts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonarddavid.com\/asteroid-research-points-to-planetary-defense-issues\/\">http:\/\/www.leonarddavid.com\/asteroid-research-points-to-plan...se-issues\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as easy as the movies show. Say it isn\u2019t so. Incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions. The findings, to be published in the March 15 print [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1523,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-computing","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88457","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}