{"id":6433,"date":"2024-12-12T15:08:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:09:21","slug":"how-to-find-a-comet-before-it-hits-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/how-to-find-a-comet-before-it-hits-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find a comet before it hits Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn\u2019t passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? <\/p>\n<p>A: You look for its footprint. <\/p>\n<p>This is the basis of research led by Samantha Hemmelgarn, a first-year doctoral student in Northern Arizona University\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6434\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/SamHemmelgarn-4-768x579-1-464x348.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-6434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/SamHemmelgarn-4-768x579-1-464x348.png 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/SamHemmelgarn-4-768x579-1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/SamHemmelgarn-4-768x579-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/SamHemmelgarn-4-768x579-1-232x174.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing the Lowell Observatory Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance (LOCAMS) station in Holbrook in August 2023. Hemmelgarn worked on LOCAMS at Lowell Observatory, and the project contributes to the data used in this study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/hemmelgarn-comets\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at the NAU Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn\u2019t passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? A: You look for its footprint. This is the basis of research led by Samantha Hemmelgarn, a first-year doctoral student in Northern Arizona University\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary [&hellip;]<\/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-6433","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\/6433","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=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}