{"id":3928090,"date":"2026-09-23T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-diffractive-solar-sails-could-stop-a-killer-asteroid-at-100-km-s\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:00:22","slug":"how-diffractive-solar-sails-could-stop-a-killer-asteroid-at-100-km-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-diffractive-solar-sails-could-stop-a-killer-asteroid-at-100-km-s\/","title":{"rendered":"How diffractive solar sails could stop a killer asteroid at 100 km\/s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Asteroids don&#8217;t come with a warning label that they might one day hit Earth. While we don&#8217;t know of any currently on course to do so, we are finding thousands of new ones each year, and there&#8217;s always a chance that one could.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-diffractive-solar-killer-asteroid-kms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroids don&#8217;t come with a warning label that they might one day hit Earth. While we don&#8217;t know of any currently on course to do so, we are finding thousands of new ones each year, and there&#8217;s always a chance that one could. <\/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-3928090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}