{"id":45578,"date":"2025-09-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=0e3bdb63709e8e32c6c5c32e32aad537"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:00:00","slug":"can-we-safely-deflect-a-killer-asteroid-without-making-it-worse-only-if-we-avoid-the-gravitational-keyhole-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2025\/09\/10\/can-we-safely-deflect-a-killer-asteroid-without-making-it-worse-only-if-we-avoid-the-gravitational-keyhole-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational &#8216;keyhole,&#8217; scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                             If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a \"gravitational keyhole\" that brings it to Earth. \n                                                                                                            ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                             If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a &#8220;gravitational keyhole&#8221; that brings it to Earth.<br \/>\n                                                                       &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2285,404,477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-astronomy","category-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45579,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578\/revisions\/45579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}