{"id":3922929,"date":"2025-11-25T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/finding-40000-asteroids-before-they-find-us\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:03:38","slug":"finding-40000-asteroids-before-they-find-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/finding-40000-asteroids-before-they-find-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding 40,000 asteroids before they find us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity&#8217;s growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids, rocky remnants from the solar system&#8217;s violent birth that cross paths with our planet&#8217;s orbit. We&#8217;ve come a long way since 1898, when astronomers discovered the first of these wanderers, an asteroid called Eros.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-asteroids.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity&#8217;s growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids, rocky remnants from the solar system&#8217;s violent birth that cross paths with our planet&#8217;s orbit. We&#8217;ve come a long way since 1898, when astronomers discovered the first of these wanderers, an asteroid called Eros. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#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-3922929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922929","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=3922929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}