{"id":75367,"date":"2025-08-18T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=75367"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:46:29","slug":"featured-spotlight-cristina-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-cristina-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Cristina Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\">Cristina Thomas<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\">, an associate professor for the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS), recently joined the steering committee for NASA&#8217;s Small Bodies Assessment Group<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"TextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\">(SBAG). Established in 2008, SBAG is a community-based forum designed to provide input on the exploration of small bodies in the solar system like asteroids, comets, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\">satellites<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64341848 BCX8\"> and trans-Neptunian objects.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW64341848 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-cristina-thomas\/\">Cristina Thomas, an associate professor for the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS), recently joined the steering committee for NASA&#8217;s Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG). Established in 2008, SBAG is a community-based forum designed to provide input on the exploration of small bodies in the solar system like asteroids, comets, satellites and trans-Neptunian objects.\u00a0&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}