{"id":139,"date":"2002-07-25T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-25T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=139"},"modified":"2010-10-20T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:00:02","slug":"139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Apparently We&#8217;re All Gonna Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, we&#8217;re all gonna <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/2147879.stm>die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space. <\/p>\n<p>A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019 &#8211; although the uncertainties are large. <\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value. <\/p>\n<p>From its brightness, astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s certainly cheerful! Here&#8217;s to ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, we&#8217;re all gonna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asteroid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}