{"id":5069,"date":"2023-04-25T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2023-05-09T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:46:53","slug":"spotting-a-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/spotting-a-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting A Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students, <strong>Ryder Strauss<\/strong>, <strong>Jessica Walsh<\/strong>, and <strong>Maria Chernyavskaya<\/strong> participated in a 200-person occultation campaign in February where they watched the Jupiter Trojan asteroid Polymele pass in front of a distant star. <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/\/RyderStrauss-PolymeleOccultation-Jan23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is Ryder&#8217;s summary (with pictures!)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lucy.swri.edu\/SpottingASatellite.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a recent press release about the campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know there is a big science result coming, but not mentioned in this press release.   Note, Ryder says &#8220;You can spot Jessica&#8217;s yellow jacket in the photograph &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students, Ryder Strauss, Jessica Walsh, and Maria Chernyavskaya participated in a 200-person occultation campaign in February where they watched the Jupiter Trojan asteroid Polymele pass in front of a distant star. Here is Ryder&#8217;s summary (with pictures!). Here is a recent press release about the campaign. We know there is a big science result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[253,254,255,250,252,251],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-jessica-walsh","tag-maria-chernyavskaya","tag-occultation","tag-polymele","tag-ryder-strauss","tag-trojan-astreroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","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=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}