{"id":506,"date":"2004-02-25T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T11:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=506"},"modified":"2004-02-25T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T11:03:06","slug":"asterwhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Asterwhat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>stronomers almost made the call.<a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/asterwhat.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/asterwhat.html','popup','width=203,height=152,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\" alt=\"sm_asterwhat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/sm_asterwhat.jpg\" width=\"41\" height=\"30\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> On January 13th, some scientists believed that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/3517319.stm\">a 30 meter object called 2004 AS1<\/a> was going to hit Earth. When a researcher at the JPL said the rock had a chance of 1 out 4 to hit the planet &#8216;somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere&#8217;, officials contemplated to make the call to the President. However:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;They completely misread the situation.There was plenty of time to get other observers on the job&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>They did apparently: an amateur astronomer managed to take his telescope to the clouds and take a picture of a blank sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers almost made the call. On January 13th, some scientists believed that a 30 meter object called 2004 AS1 was going to hit Earth. When a researcher at the JPL said the rock had a chance of 1 out 4 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}