{"id":767,"date":"2016-09-21T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2016-09-21T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:42:22","slug":"earth-vulnerable-to-major-asteroid-strike-white-house-science-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/earth-vulnerable-to-major-asteroid-strike-white-house-science-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The world is still vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic asteroid strike, according to President Barack Obama’s chief science adviser.<\/p>\n

NASA has made substantial progress in finding the asteroids<\/a> that pose the biggest threat to Earth, but there’s still a lot of work to do, said John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.<\/p>\n

“We are not fully prepared, but we are on a trajectory to get much more so,” Holdren said today (Sept. 14) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, during a discussion of the agency’s planned Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). [Images: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Holdren cited the February 2013 meteor explosion over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk and the 1908 Tunguska air-burst as reasons to take the asteroid threat seriously.<\/p>\n

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Source: Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says September 14, 2016 03:32 pm ET The world is still vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic asteroid strike, according to President Barack Obama’s chief science adviser. NASA has made substantial progress in finding the asteroids that pose the biggest threat to Earth, but there’s … Continue reading Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}