{"id":2273,"date":"2025-03-18T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/gravity-tractor-may-protect-earth-from-asteroids\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:01:07","slug":"gravity-tractor-may-protect-earth-from-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/gravity-tractor-may-protect-earth-from-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity tractor may protect Earth from asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-18 16:01:06<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A gravity tractor could protect Earth from being hit by asteroids.<BR><br \/>\nThe satellite&#8217;s gravitational field could force the huge chunks of space rock to zoom past the planet.<BR><br \/>\nJosef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;If the asteroid is in front of your door, more or less, it&#8217;s too late, and we probably cannot do much.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The earlier you detect an asteroid that might impact planet Earth, the higher the chances that it won&#8217;t have negative impacts.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nAstronomers were sent into a state of panic on December 27, 2024, as a death-defying asteroid called 2024 YR4 &#8211; dubbed the size of the London Eye &#8211; was spotted through a telescope in Chile.<BR><br \/>\nIt 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 \/>\nScientists from the ESA have confirmed the up to 300ft-wide menace affecting us has a 0.001 per cent chance of doing so.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, despite it being 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>2025-03-18 16:01:06 A gravity tractor could protect Earth from being hit by asteroids. The satellite&#8217;s gravitational field could force the huge chunks of space rock to zoom past the planet.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","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\/2273","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=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}