{"id":2325,"date":"2025-06-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:46:18","slug":"this-asteroid-wont-strike-earth-heres-why-nasa-is-still-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/this-asteroid-wont-strike-earth-heres-why-nasa-is-still-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"This asteroid won&#039;t strike Earth. Here&#039;s why NASA is still watching."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/this-asteroid-wont-strike-earth-heres-why-nasa-is-still-watc_636k.640.jpg\">There&#x27;s a good reason NASA continues tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4.<\/p>\n<p>An <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/29620\/whats-a-shooting-star-relax-youre-not-the-only-one-confused\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asteroid<\/a><\/u> discovered late last year is expected to be in our neck of <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u> in 2032.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? It&#8217;s not coming for Earth. <\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/52430\/large-asteroids-odds-of-hitting-earth-went-up-but-not-why-you-think\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asteroid 2024 YR4<\/a><\/u> is no longer visible, but <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a><\/u> squeezed in one last glimpse of it with the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#x27;s a good reason NASA continues tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4. An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our neck of space in 2032. The good news? It&#8217;s not coming for Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer visible, but NASA squeezed in one last glimpse of it with the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}