{"id":11640,"date":"2013-10-21T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:56:15","slug":"how-to-catch-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/how-to-catch-an-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Catch an Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last February\u2019s atmospheric explosion of a meteor over Russia injured 1,500 people, mostly from glass broken by the blast, whose force was estimated at 30 times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Is NASA worried? Sufficiently so that it has announced an asteroid Grand Challenge, inviting ideas from the global scientific community about how to spot and stop asteroids that threaten our planet.<\/p>\n<p>How exactly does one stop an asteroid? First, says CAS Associate Dean and Professor of Astronomy Jeffrey Hughes, we should distinguish between planet-killers\u2014asteroids so massive that we could kiss our posteriors good-bye\u2014and smaller, potential city-killers like the Russian meteor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/how-to-catch-an-asteroid\/\">Read the full <em>BU Today<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February\u2019s atmospheric explosion of a meteor over Russia reminded us of the threat from space. But how exactly does one stop an asteroid? BU astronomers suggest some answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,195,5],"tags":[235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20598,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions\/20598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}