{"id":243864,"date":"2016-11-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=768bcdd821f4ad536121205de56294db"},"modified":"2016-11-25T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:00:00","slug":"esa-euronews-can-we-deflect-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243864","title":{"rendered":"ESA Euronews: Can we deflect asteroids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/11\/esa_euronews_can_we_deflect_asteroids\/16535705-2-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_Can_we_deflect_asteroids_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn the edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur in the south of France on a unique mission to deflect an asteroid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAsteroids have the potential to cause a catastrophe &#8211; a small asteroid could wipe out an entire city, while a large one could mean the end for us all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a threat we&#8217;re aware of, and which scientists and engineers are working to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/11\/esa_euronews_can_we_deflect_asteroids\/16535705-2-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_Can_we_deflect_asteroids_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIn the edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of the C&ocirc;te d&#8217;Azur in the south of France on a unique mission to deflect an asteroid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAsteroids have the potential to cause a catastrophe &#8211; a small asteroid could wipe out an entire city, while a large one could mean the end for us all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a threat we&#8217;re aware of, and which scientists and engineers are working to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243864","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243865,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243864\/revisions\/243865"}],"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=243864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}