{"id":1788,"date":"2008-04-16T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2008-04-16T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T14:40:38","slug":"on-upcoming-asteroid-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"On Upcoming Asteroid Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid Apophis, which NASA had rated as having a 1 in 45,000 chance of colliding with the Earth in the April 2029, in actuality has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080415\/sc_afp\/spaceastronomygermany_080415214429\">1 in 450 chance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if the asteroid collides with a satellite in Earth orbit in its 2029 pass, then the asteroid will hit the Earth in 2036.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both NASA and [13 year-old German amateur astronomer Nico] Marquardt agree that if the asteroid does collide with earth, it will create a ball of iron and iridium 320 metres (1049 feet) wide and weighing 200 billion tonnes, which will crash into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The shockwaves from that would create huge tsunami waves, destroying both coastlines and inland areas, whilst creating a thick cloud of dust that would darken the skies indefinitely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Earth has twenty years until the asteroid strike, space agencies should begin working immediately on contigency plans for diverting the asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t something that can be passed along to the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that needs to be dealt with.  Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid Apophis, which NASA had rated as having a 1 in 45,000 chance of colliding with the Earth in the April 2029, in actuality has a 1 in 450 chance. And if the asteroid collides with a satellite in Earth orbit in its 2029 pass, then the asteroid will hit the Earth in 2036.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1788\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Upcoming Asteroid Impacts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[506],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-asteroid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}