{"id":2193,"date":"2025-03-04T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/space-rock-close-to-slamming-into-earth\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:45:39","slug":"space-rock-close-to-slamming-into-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/space-rock-close-to-slamming-into-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Space rock close to slamming into Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-04 12:45:39<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Many chunks of space rock have come close to hitting Earth.<BR><br \/>\nNasa scientists have reported near-miss objects have passed the planet closer than the moon recently.<BR><br \/>\nThe discovery came after astronomers spotted a death-defying asteroid &#8211; dubbed the size of the London Eye &#8211; through a telescope in Chile on December 27, 2024.<BR><br \/>\nCalled 2024 YR4, it was previously predicted that 2024 YR4 &#8211; which was zooming down towards the planet at 38,000 mph &#8211; had a 2.3 per cent (one-in-43) before its original 1.2 per cent chance of crashing down on the planet on December 22, 2032.<BR><br \/>\nSome even scrambled to come up with a plan to fend off the up to 300ft-wide chunk of space rock, with expert David Rankin stressing that people should not worry about it because it will start &#8220;falling at some point&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nNow, scientists from the European Space Agency have confirmed the menace affecting us has a 0.001 per cent chance of doing so.<BR><br \/>\nEven though it is currently 27 million miles away, it has been said it will return to our orbit in 2032.<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>2025-03-04 12:45:39 Many chunks of space rock have come close to hitting Earth. Nasa scientists have reported near-miss objects have passed the planet closer than the moon recently. The discovery&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-2193","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\/2193","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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2194"}],"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=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}