{"id":13958,"date":"2025-07-25T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:15:51","slug":"shooting-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/25\/shooting-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/25\/science\/asteroid-2024-yr4-potential-lunar-impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/ashley-strickland-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashley Strickland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moon could be hit with largest asteroid in 5,000 years\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/--jojBupaDc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is currently zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun. But as scientists wait for it to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discovered at the end of 2024, the space rock looked at first as if it might hit our planet by December 22, 2032. The chance of that impact changed with every new observation, peaking at 3.1% in February \u2014 odds that made it the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/15\/science\/asteroid-2024-yr4-earth-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">riskiest asteroid ever observed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/25\/science\/asteroid-2024-yr4-potential-lunar-impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to. continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN The asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does? by Ashley Strickland The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists\u2019 minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}