{"id":3922846,"date":"2025-11-17T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/asteroid-2024-yr4-was-earths-first-real-life-defense-test\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:04:12","slug":"asteroid-2024-yr4-was-earths-first-real-life-defense-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/asteroid-2024-yr4-was-earths-first-real-life-defense-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earth&#8217;s first real-life defense test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching &#8220;Deep Impact&#8221; and &#8220;Armageddon,&#8221; two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ranking positions at space agencies. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8221; also provided a more modern, though more pessimistic (or, unfortunately, realistic?), look at what might potentially happen if a &#8220;killer&#8221; asteroid is found on approach to Earth.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-asteroid-yr4-earth-real-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching &#8220;Deep Impact&#8221; and &#8220;Armageddon,&#8221; two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ranking positions at space agencies. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8221; also provided a more modern, though more pessimistic (or, unfortunately, realistic?), look at what might potentially happen [&#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-3922846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922846","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=3922846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}