{"id":18,"date":"2007-12-26T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/2007\/12\/26\/asteroid-and-mars\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T11:36:00","slug":"asteroid-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/2007\/12\/26\/asteroid-and-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard from someone that an asteroid had a 1-in-5 chance of hitting Mars on Jan 5, 2008, that it was the size of the asteroid that impacted Earth 65 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Just went to look for details; far less exciting than that, the asteroid is the size that exploded over Tunguska in 1908.  It would have been bad if you happened to be directly under the impact; but as it happens it was a remote region that mostly flattened a lot of trees.  Not the major planet changing event of 65 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid is also scheduled to possibly hit on January 30th, not January 5th, and the odds of an impact are 1-in-75 not 1-in-5.  I am so disappointed but I imagine there might be some relieved Martian bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard from someone that an asteroid had a 1-in-5 chance of hitting Mars on Jan 5, 2008, that it was the size of the asteroid that impacted Earth 65 million years ago. Just went to look for details; far less exciting than that, the asteroid is the size that exploded over Tunguska in [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}