{"id":13843,"date":"2025-03-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=13843"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:06:03","slug":"asteroid-impact-detection-defense-nasa-dart-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/asteroid-impact-detection-defense-nasa-dart-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Astrophysics Can (LITERALLY) Save the World\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfkU4CD91hk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astronomers track faint moving objects across the sky and use orbital math\u2014refined since Kepler and Gauss\u2014to determine whether a newly discovered asteroid could be on a collision course with Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomers track faint moving objects across the sky and use orbital math\u2014refined since Kepler and Gauss\u2014to determine whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2942\/15148296739_1ab479e6ee_h.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[6410,6401,6404,6405,6406,6408,6407,6400,6402,6398,6399,6403,6409,5723,423,189],"class_list":["post-13843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-math-and-the-sciences","category-space","tag-asteroid-close-encounters-explained","tag-asteroid-collision-risk","tag-asteroid-deflection-strategies","tag-asteroid-early-warning-systems","tag-asteroid-impact-prediction","tag-asteroid-prevention-technology","tag-earth-asteroid-defense","tag-gravitational-keyholes","tag-how-do-we-detect-asteroids","tag-lsst-rubin-observatory-asteroid-search","tag-nasa-dart-mission","tag-near-earth-object-tracking","tag-orbital-mechanics-and-asteroids","tag-osiris-apex-mission","tag-pbs-space-time","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-video","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13844,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions\/13844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}