{"id":4636,"date":"2011-02-09T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:49:16","slug":"the-actual-odds-of-successfully-navigating-an-asteroid-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/the-actual-odds-of-successfully-navigating-an-asteroid-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The Actual Odds of Successfully Navigating an Asteroid Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/odds-of-successfully-naviga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4637\" title=\"odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/odds-of-successfully-naviga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/odds-of-successfully-naviga.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/odds-of-successfully-naviga-340x207.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"An Asteroid Field Would Actually Be Quite Safe to Fly Through\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/an-asteroid-field-would-actually-be-quite-safe-to-fly-through\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Asteroid Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field isn\u2019t \u201capproximately 3,720 to 1!\u201d\u00a0 The actual odds would entirely depend on what asteroid field you were talking about and a variety of other factors.\u00a0 But for reference, NASA estimates the odds of one of their probes traveling through the asteroid field actually hitting an asteroid to be about one in a billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Asteroid Facts Text Version The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field isn\u2019t \u201capproximately 3,720 to 1!\u201d\u00a0 The actual odds would entirely depend on what asteroid field you were talking about and a variety of other factors.\u00a0 But for reference, NASA estimates the odds of one of their probes traveling [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1144],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-astronomy-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}