{"id":613117,"date":"2019-04-29T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3d212e50178db5bb37125ad1e1be4bb9"},"modified":"2019-04-29T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:26:00","slug":"this-week-nasa-is-pretending-an-asteroid-is-on-its-way-to-smack-the-earth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=613117","title":{"rendered":"This Week, NASA Is Pretending An Asteroid Is On Its Way To Smack The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/04\/29\/2019pdc_rc1_wide-8cd3e8ba1e54e45eac889b6911670f26757d77fa.jpg?s=600' alt='A stripe of red dots shows the risk corridor for a hypothetical asteroid strike, part of an exercise this week held by planetary defense experts in which they analyze data about a fictitious asteroid.'\/><\/p>\n<p>A fictitious asteroid is the focus of a realistic exercise, as experts at the Planetary Defense Conference run through how they would respond to news of a looming asteroid strike.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Landsat\/Copernicus\/Google Earth\/Dept. of State Geographer)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=718296681' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fictitious asteroid is the focus of a realistic exercise, as experts at the Planetary Defense Conference run through how they would respond to news of a looming asteroid strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613117","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613118,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613117\/revisions\/613118"}],"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=613117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}