{"id":89603,"date":"2019-04-17T00:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T07:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/how-to-defend-the-earth-from-asteroids"},"modified":"2019-04-17T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T07:36:17","slug":"how-to-defend-the-earth-from-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/how-to-defend-the-earth-from-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"How to defend the Earth from asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-defend-the-earth-from-asteroids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mere 17\u201320 meters across, the Chelyabinsk meteor caused extensive ground damage and numerous injuries when it exploded on impact with Earth\u2019s atmosphere in February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent another such impact, Amy Mainzer and colleagues use a simple yet ingenious way to spot these tiny near-Earth objects (NEOs) as they hurtle toward the planet. She is the principal investigator of NASA\u2019s asteroid hunting mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and will outline the work of NASA\u2019s Planetary Defense Coordination Office this week at the American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver\u2014including her team\u2019s NEO recognition method and how it will aid the efforts to prevent future Earth impacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we find an object only a few days from impact, it greatly limits our choices, so in our search efforts we\u2019ve focused on finding NEOs when they are further away from Earth, providing the maximum amount of time and opening up a wider range of mitigation possibilities,\u201d Mainzer said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-defend-earth-asteroids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere 17\u201320 meters across, the Chelyabinsk meteor caused extensive ground damage and numerous injuries when it exploded on impact with Earth\u2019s atmosphere in February 2013. To prevent another such impact, Amy Mainzer and colleagues use a simple yet ingenious way to spot these tiny near-Earth objects (NEOs) as they hurtle toward the planet. She [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89603","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}