{"id":10088,"date":"2015-03-09T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10088"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:17:22","slug":"video-bruce-betts-on-detecting-potentially-dangerous-asteroids-and-comets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10088","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bruce Betts on detecting potentially dangerous asteroids and comets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/bruce-betts\/\" target=\"_d\">Bruce Betts<\/a>\u00a0of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a>\u00a0talks about the potential danger of near earth objects\u00a0and about donations to the Society&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/neo-grants\/\" target=\"_d\">Shoemaker Near-Earth Object Grant Program<\/a>, which supports astronomers who search for such objects.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sEtoEDIv43U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Betts\u00a0of the Planetary Society\u00a0talks about the potential danger of near earth objects\u00a0and about donations to the Society&#8217;s\u00a0Shoemaker Near-Earth Object Grant Program, which supports astronomers who search for such objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,75,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asteroids","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2CI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14001,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14001","url_meta":{"origin":10088,"position":0},"title":"Video: The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo &#8211; &#8220;Griffith Observatory with Tim Russ&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest of the Planetary Society's series The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo: Star parties are magical events where one can observe the wonders of our night sky...and have a surprise Star Trek: Voyager reunion. 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