{"id":90436,"date":"2019-05-08T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/catastrophic-meteors-how-space-scientists-hope-to-protect-the-only-planet-we-know"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:03:43","slug":"catastrophic-meteors-how-space-scientists-hope-to-protect-the-only-planet-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/catastrophic-meteors-how-space-scientists-hope-to-protect-the-only-planet-we-know","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic meteors: How space scientists hope to protect \u2018the only planet we know\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catastrophic-meteors-how-space-scientists-hope-to-protect-the-only-planet-we-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is warning that meteors pose a major threat to Earth, so agencies are already testing out ways to defend against them by using lasers or by ramming spacecraft into them.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBv-FCZoScc&feature=youtu.be\">conference last week<\/a>, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained that not taking meteors seriously could have catastrophic consequences. In 2013, a 20-metre meteor exploded over Russia and the sonic boom caused windows and glass to shatter, injuring more than 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>That relatively small meteor contained more than 30 times the energy of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/catastrophic-meteors-how-space-scientists-hope-to-protect-the-only-planet-we-know-1.4409569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is warning that meteors pose a major threat to Earth, so agencies are already testing out ways to defend against them by using lasers or by ramming spacecraft into them. During a conference last week, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained that not taking meteors seriously could have catastrophic consequences. In 2013, a 20-metre meteor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90436","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=90436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}