{"id":4675,"date":"2022-09-12T09:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:26:48","slug":"nasas-unprecedented-asteroid-deflection-mission-is-more-than-billiards-in-space-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/nasas-unprecedented-asteroid-deflection-mission-is-more-than-billiards-in-space-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission is more than \u2018billiards in space,\u2019 scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/do\/10.1126\/science.ade8482\/full\/_20220912_nid_dartpreview_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be thrilling\u2014and very stressful\u2014but ultimately, I think we\u2019re going to learn a lot,\u201d says <strong>Cristina Thomas<\/strong>, a planetary scientist at Northern Arizona University who leads the observation team for the DART mission.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/nasa-s-unprecedented-asteroid-deflection-mission-more-billiards-space-scientists-say\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be thrilling\u2014and very stressful\u2014but ultimately, I think we\u2019re going to learn a lot,\u201d says Cristina Thomas, a planetary scientist at Northern Arizona University who leads the observation team for the DART mission. Read the full article here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[211,191],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-cristina-thomas","tag-dart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","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\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}