{"id":34105,"date":"2025-02-22T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/the-observer-view-when-an-asteroid-is-hurtling-to-earth-do-you-head-for-the-pub-or-the-church-observer-editorial\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:58:13","slug":"the-observer-view-when-an-asteroid-is-hurtling-to-earth-do-you-head-for-the-pub-or-the-church-observer-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/the-observer-view-when-an-asteroid-is-hurtling-to-earth-do-you-head-for-the-pub-or-the-church-observer-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Observer view: when an asteroid is hurtling to Earth, do you head for the pub or the church? | Observer editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2024 YR4, a lump of rock the size of a building, may be heading our way, but don\u2019t start stockpiling the tinned carrots yet<\/p>\n<p>Following the possible trajectory of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/asteroids\/2024-yr4\/\">2024 YR4<\/a> \u2013 AKA the scariest asteroid ever detected \u2013 is not for the nervous of disposition. Is it going to hit us, or not? Every day, a different answer.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, Nasa calculated it had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and so some people set to worrying. Twenty-four hours later, however, the agency provided an update. New observations, made since the passing of the full moon, show it now has a 1.5% chance of impact. Time to exhale? Not necessarily.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/22\/the-observer-view-when-an-asteroid-is-hurtling-to-earth-do-you-head-for-the-pub-or-the-church\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 YR4, a lump of rock the size of a building, may be heading our way, but don\u2019t start stockpiling the tinned carrots yet Following the possible trajectory of 2024 YR4 \u2013 AKA the scariest asteroid ever detected \u2013 is not for the nervous of disposition. Is it going to hit us, or not? Every &#8230; <a title=\"The Observer view: when an asteroid is hurtling to Earth, do you head for the pub or the church? | Observer editorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/the-observer-view-when-an-asteroid-is-hurtling-to-earth-do-you-head-for-the-pub-or-the-church-observer-editorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Observer view: when an asteroid is hurtling to Earth, do you head for the pub or the church? | Observer editorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}