{"id":3703,"date":"2022-10-12T04:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T04:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2022-10-12T04:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T04:54:10","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-successfully-alters-orbit-of-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"NASA Spacecraft Successfully Alters Orbit of Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nasa successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, accomplishing the goal of altering the asteroid&#8217;s course, a task which has never before been accomplished.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ability to successfully alter the trajectory of an asteroid could potentially be life-saving for humanity in the future, should an asteriod of significant-enough size one day be detected on a collision-course with earth.  A similar event is believed to have ended the era of dinosaurs, about 65 million years ago, demonstrating the existential threat to a species such an event could have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasa successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, accomplishing the goal of altering the asteroid&#8217;s course, a task which has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}