{"id":174893,"date":"2015-08-21T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=174893"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:17:01","slug":"nasa-giant-asteroid-will-not-destroy-earth-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/nasa-giant-asteroid-will-not-destroy-earth-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA: Giant asteroid will not destroy Earth next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world can breath easy. A giant asteroid is not hurtling towards Earth about to wipe out much of the Americas, NASA has felt compelled to explain following a swirl of online rumors.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs and off-beat news sites have claimed a major asteroid will impact earth in mid-to-late September near Puerto Rico, causing major destruction throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>But that theory is entirely baseless, NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a post this week, trying to damp down the Doomsday predictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no scientific basis \u2013 not one shred of evidence \u2013 that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,\u201d said the manager of the Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Paul Chodas.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/08\/nasa-giant-asteroid-will-not-destroy-earth-next-month\/\">Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world can breath easy. A giant asteroid is not hurtling towards Earth about to wipe out much of the Americas, NASA has felt compelled to explain following a swirl of online rumors. Blogs and off-beat news sites have claimed a major asteroid will impact earth in mid-to-late September near Puerto Rico, causing major destruction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}