{"id":833591,"date":"2026-07-30T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:28:12","slug":"what-would-really-happen-if-a-massive-asteroid-was-suddenly-headed-for-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833591\/","title":{"rendered":"What would really happen if a massive asteroid was suddenly headed for Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tWhat would really happen if a massive asteroid was suddenly headed for Earth? &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/what-would-really-happen-if-a-massive-asteroid-was-suddenly-headed-for-earth.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"By 2019, approximately 20,000 asteroids with orbits grazing our own had been cataloged. Their number continues to rise\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    By 2019, approximately 20,000 asteroids with orbits grazing our own had been cataloged. Their number continues to rise. \u00a9 Buradaki, iStock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What would really happen if a massive asteroid was suddenly headed for Earth? &#8211; Futura-Sciences July 30, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285,106954],"class_list":["post-833591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}