{"id":2042,"date":"2006-05-28T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-28T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T04:30:00","slug":"asteroids-a-threat-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"Asteroids a threat to the future ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd about 500 m in diameter with a mass of nearly 1000 million tonnes &#8211; collides with the Earth it could spell disaster for much of our planet. As part of ESA\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds Near-Earth Object deflecting mission Don Quijote, three teams of European industries are now carrying out studies on how to prevent this.<\/p>\n<p>Full story:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEMC43NFGLE_index_0.html\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEMC43NFGLE_index_0.html  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd about 500 m in diameter with a mass of nearly 1000 million tonnes &#8211; collides with the Earth&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}