{"id":632,"date":"2025-02-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:56:13","slug":"large-asteroids-odds-of-hitting-earth-went-up-but-not-why-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/large-asteroids-odds-of-hitting-earth-went-up-but-not-why-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Large&#039; asteroid&#039;s odds of hitting Earth went up. But not why you think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/large-asteroids-odds-of-hitting-earth-went-up-but-not-why-yo_az4b.640.png\">&#8220;It&#x27;s not surprising the percentage went up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certain that recently discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/52121\/nasa-spotted-a-big-asteroid-that-may-hit-earth-what-you-should-know\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid 2024 YR4<\/a> will swing close to <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/27468\/the-farthest-away-pictures-of-earth-ever-taken\" target=\"_blank\">Earth<\/a> in 2032. The chances of an impact remain low \u2014 but with relatively limited observations so far, the odds are in flux. <\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 31, the collision impact probability was 1.4 percent. As \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#x27;s not surprising the percentage went up.&#8221; It&#8217;s certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}