{"id":6403,"date":"2025-01-06T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:36:19","slug":"northern-arizona-university-student-studies-comet-trajectories-through-work-at-lowell-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/northern-arizona-university-student-studies-comet-trajectories-through-work-at-lowell-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arizona University student studies comet trajectories through work at Lowell Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6405\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/SamHammelgarn-Jan25-755x384.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Hemmelgarn stands beside the Clarke Telescope.\" width=\"755\" height=\"384\" class=\"size-tall-banner-image wp-image-6405\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Arizona University doctoral student Sam Hemmelgarn stands next to the Clark Telescope at Lowell Observatory on Friday, Dec. 27. She has been working with Lowell on a model that uses meteor showers to learn about the path of long-period comets.<br \/>Photo Credit:  Hattie Loper, Arizona Daily Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA Northern Arizona University Ph.D. student working at Lowell Observatory helped lead a study using meteor showers to predict the path of comets that take hundreds of years to travel through the solar system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/education\/northern-arizona-university-student-studies-comet-trajectories-through-work-at-lowell-observatory\/article_8a1d1d52-c479-11ef-9e33-73e0679a7700.html?utm_source=second-street&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=azdailysunnewsalert&#038;emailmd5=7e9809c2ec8cc698f5152eef230ab45e&#038;emailsha1=60250604411215419251201902496223119245163171724836&#038;emailsha256=db10e49dab9baec8f42f831cddae2f88566f9404aa7549033a2e9a456f2727a5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story from the Arizona Daily Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Northern Arizona University Ph.D. student working at Lowell Observatory helped lead a study using meteor showers to predict the path of comets that take hundreds of years to travel through the solar system. Read the story from the Arizona Daily Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[312],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-sam-hemmelgarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}