{"id":4769,"date":"2022-11-01T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:47:20","slug":"cristina-thomas-was-in-the-new-york-times-and-it-was-not-about-the-dart-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/cristina-thomas-was-in-the-new-york-times-and-it-was-not-about-the-dart-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Thomas was in the New York Times, and it was *not* about the DART mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/31\/science\/asteroid-planet-killer.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Planet Killer\u2019 Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral [asteroids] no doubt sneak about near Mercury and Venus. But it\u2019s \u201cincredibly difficult to discover objects interior to Earth\u2019s orbit with our current discovery telescopes,\u201d Dr. Thomas said. During most hours of the day, the sun blinds Earth\u2019s telescopes and objects can be hunted only in the few minutes around twilight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Planet Killer\u2019 Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth Several [asteroids] no doubt sneak about near Mercury and Venus. But it\u2019s \u201cincredibly difficult to discover objects interior to Earth\u2019s orbit with our current discovery telescopes,\u201d Dr. Thomas said. During most hours of the day, the sun blinds Earth\u2019s telescopes and objects can be hunted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[211,215],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-cristina-thomas","tag-near-earth-asteroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","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=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4774,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}