{"id":10583,"date":"2023-05-02T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2023-05-02T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:37:42","slug":"scientists-reveal-new-way-to-stop-giant-asteroids-obliterating-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10583","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal new way to stop giant asteroids obliterating Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Data show that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/10\/11\/asteroid-heading-earth-could-knocked-course-mission-succeeded\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crashing a sacrificial spacecraft into an asteroid<\/a>&nbsp;would be powerful enough to avoid almost all rocks hitting Earth, averting catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only asteroids wider than a kilometre would need a nuclear detonation to shift them off course, scientists now believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rock this big is expected to hit our planet once every 700,000 years and would create a crater as big as Manchester. An impact of this size would cause global devastation and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/asteroid-2012-tc4-pass-damn-close-earth-tomorrow-give-rare-chance\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the possible collapse of civilisation<\/a>, experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronomers believe around 900 \u201cnear Earth objects\u201d &#8211; defined as within 120 million miles of our sun &#8211; are more than one kilometre wide, and they have identified 95 per cent of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuclear warheads have long been, and continue to be, part of planetary defence plans, but only as a last resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A White House document recently said that the US would continue to study when a nuclear explosive device would be needed to prevent an asteroid apocalypse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/scientists-reveal-way-stop-giant-131134166.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/scientists-reveal-way-stop-giant-131134166.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Data show that crashing a sacrificial spacecraft into an asteroid would be powerful enough to avoid almost all rocks hitting Earth, averting catastrophe.<br \/>\nOnly asteroids wider than a kilometre would need a nuclear detonation to shift them off course, scientists now believe.<\/p>\n<p>A rock this big is expected to hit our planet once every 700,000 years and would create a crater as big as Manchester. An impact of this size would cause global devastation and the possible collapse of civilisation, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers believe around 900 \u201cnear Earth objects\u201d &#8211; defined as within 120 million miles of our sun &#8211; are more than one kilometre wide, and they have identified 95 per cent of them.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear warheads have long been, and continue to be, part of planetary defence plans, but only as a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>A White House document recently said that the US would continue to study when a nuclear explosive device would be needed to prevent an asteroid apocalypse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1560,954],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asteroid","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10584,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions\/10584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}