{"id":551394,"date":"2026-07-30T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551394\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:29:09","slug":"what-would-really-happen-if-a-massive-asteroid-was-suddenly-headed-for-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551394\/","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\/nz\/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":551395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392,184139],"class_list":["post-551394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}