{"id":3921801,"date":"2025-09-09T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/beware-of-the-gravitational-keyhole-how-to-find-the-safest-spots-to-deflect-a-hazardous-asteroid\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:03:08","slug":"beware-of-the-gravitational-keyhole-how-to-find-the-safest-spots-to-deflect-a-hazardous-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/beware-of-the-gravitational-keyhole-how-to-find-the-safest-spots-to-deflect-a-hazardous-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the &#8216;gravitational keyhole&#8217;: How to find the safest spots to deflect a hazardous asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great care, according to new research presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki. Slamming into its surface indiscriminately runs the risk of knocking the asteroid through a &#8220;gravitational keyhole&#8221; that sends it back around to hit Earth at a later date.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-beware-gravitational-keyhole-safest-deflect.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great care, according to new research presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki. Slamming into its surface indiscriminately runs the risk of knocking the asteroid through a &#8220;gravitational keyhole&#8221; that sends it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}