{"id":2079,"date":"2025-02-14T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/astronomers-scrambling-to-fend-off-deadly-asteroid-from-hitting-earth\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:51:30","slug":"astronomers-scrambling-to-fend-off-deadly-asteroid-from-hitting-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/astronomers-scrambling-to-fend-off-deadly-asteroid-from-hitting-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers scrambling to fend off deadly asteroid from hitting Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-14 07:51:30<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Nothing can be done to stop a massive asteroid from crashing down on Earth.<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 \/>\nAstronomers who are monitoring the potentially deadly 196ft-wide asteroid admitted on February 12 that its chance of causing havoc on Earth has shot up from 1.2 per cent to 2.3 per cent (one-in-43).<BR><br \/>\nNow, Doctor Robin George Andrews, a London-based volcanologist and author, has warned there is not much time to come up with a deflection mission.<BR><br \/>\nHe is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;You need 10 years or more to build, plan and execute an asteroid deflection mission.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We have less than eight years to potentially deal with it.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t have much time.&#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>2025-02-14 07:51:30 Nothing can be done to stop a massive asteroid from crashing down on Earth. The chunk of rock called 2024 YR4 &#8211; which has been dubbed the size&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","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\/2079","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=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}