{"id":1118,"date":"2007-12-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/29\/rock-likely-to-hit-mars-not\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T17:00:00","slug":"rock-likely-to-hit-mars-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/rock-likely-to-hit-mars-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Likely to Hit Mars, NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/neo.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news153.html\">NEAR project<\/a> &#8230; they are the ones that keep track of objects in space that might hit us &#8230; now predicts that the asteroid earlier reported to be on its way to Mars will likely miss the Red Planet.  Have a look:<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9f8b5b796ed8d4595f24f7387194438f-rock_hits_mars.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-9f8b5b796ed8d4595f24f7387194438f-rock_hits_mars.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>As you can see, it is close.  Further data may change the prediction of a &#8220;near miss&#8221; as opposed to a &#8220;non miss.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h67k9eEw9AY\">Which reminds us of this.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NEAR project &#8230; they are the ones that keep track of objects in space that might hit us &#8230; now predicts that the asteroid earlier reported to be on its way to Mars will likely miss the Red Planet. Have a look:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-i2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}