{"id":3924297,"date":"2026-03-07T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasas-dart-test-for-planetary-defense-proved-it-can-shift-an-asteroids-solar-orbit\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:03:02","slug":"nasas-dart-test-for-planetary-defense-proved-it-can-shift-an-asteroids-solar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasas-dart-test-for-planetary-defense-proved-it-can-shift-an-asteroids-solar-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid&#8217;s solar orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it\u2014a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-nasa-dart-planetary-defense-shift.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it\u2014a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3924297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924297","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=3924297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}