{"id":4600,"date":"2022-07-18T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2022-10-24T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:07:49","slug":"nasa-awards-scientist-848013-grant-for-ongoing-study-of-potentially-hazardous-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/nasa-awards-scientist-848013-grant-for-ongoing-study-of-potentially-hazardous-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA awards scientist $848,013 grant for ongoing study of potentially hazardous asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/58A0601Thomas_DCT04162019-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"Cristina Thomas at her computer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Assistant professor Cristina Thomas of Northern Arizona University\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, who started working on the project as a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , has now taken the lead as the principal investigator, funded through a $848,013 grant from NASA for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/thomas-pha-grant\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant professor Cristina Thomas of Northern Arizona University\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, who started working on the project as a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , has now taken the lead as the principal investigator, funded through a $848,013 grant from NASA for the next three years. Read the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[13,208],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-asteroids","tag-planetary-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}