{"id":793479,"date":"2025-02-10T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793479"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:29:05","slug":"theres-a-tiny-chance-the-asteroid-headed-for-earth-could-hit-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793479","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Artist\u2019s impression of an asteroid nearing the moon<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there\u2019s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit.<\/p>\n<p>Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the asteroid \u2013 about as long as the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tall \u2013 will crash into our planet on 22 December 2032. Although it\u2019s very likely to miss, a direct strike on a populated area would be catastrophic. But if it is in fact heading directly our way, new calculations show that there is\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2467730-theres-a-tiny-chance-the-asteroid-headed-for-earth-could-hit-the-moon\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u2019s impression of an asteroid nearing the moon NASA\/JPL-Caltech Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there\u2019s a very slight chance the moon could take&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793479","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=793479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}