{"id":1990,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/london-eye-sized-asteroid-may-threaten-earth-in-2032\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","slug":"london-eye-sized-asteroid-may-threaten-earth-in-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/london-eye-sized-asteroid-may-threaten-earth-in-2032\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;London Eye&#039;-sized asteroid may threaten Earth in 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-31 15:39:25<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A huge asteroid could plummet to Earth and wreck Christmas in 2032.<BR><br \/>\nThe chunk of rock called 2024 YR4 &#8211; which has been dubbed the size of the London Eye &#8211; is zooming down at 38,000mph, and a crash landing is predicted for December 22, 2032.<BR><br \/>\nDespite space geeks keeping a close eye on the asteroid &#8211; which poses the biggest risk from a collision ever recorded by the European Space Agency &#8211; there is only a 1.2 per cent chance of it impacting Earth.<BR><br \/>\nThe asteroid &#8211; which was spotted on Christmas Day (25.12.24) by a telescope at a Chile observatory &#8211; is moving away from our planet, but its orbit could bring it closer once again.<BR><br \/>\nGareth Collins, a professor of planetary science at Imperial College London, said: &#8220;At this stage, the best thing to do is continue tracking the asteroid for as long as possible so that we can predict its trajectory with more confidence.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-31 15:39:25 A huge asteroid could plummet to Earth and wreck Christmas in 2032. The chunk of rock called 2024 YR4 &#8211; which has been dubbed the size of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}