{"id":1535,"date":"2013-04-05T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2013-04-05T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:07:33","slug":"ed-lu-talks-about-the-asteroid-threat-and-the-sentinel-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"Ed Lu talks about the asteroid threat and the Sentinel space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glenn_Reynolds\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a> interviews former Shuttle astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/b612foundation.org\/about-us\/team\/b612-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Lu<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/b612foundation.org\/\" target=\"_d\">B612 Foundation<\/a> about asteroid impact prevention and about the B612 group&#8217;s plan to launch the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/b612foundation.org\/sentinelmission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel space telescope<\/a> to do an extensive census of near earth objects: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjtv.com\/?cmd=mpg&amp;mpid=86&amp;load=8244\" target=\"_d\">Asteroid Apocalypse: The Tech Exists to Deflect Asteroids, So Why Aren&#8217;t We Using It? &#8211; Glenn Reynolds\/PJTV <\/a><\/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\/rR5Wd_9psOQ?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>Glenn Reynolds interviews former Shuttle astronaut Ed Lu of the B612 Foundation about asteroid impact prevention and about the B612 group&#8217;s plan to launch the\u00a0Sentinel space telescope to do an extensive census of near earth objects: Asteroid Apocalypse: The Tech Exists to Deflect Asteroids, So Why Aren&#8217;t We Using It? &#8211; Glenn Reynolds\/PJTV<\/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":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-oL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3191,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3191","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":0},"title":"Astronauts sell space memorabilia to support asteroid observatory","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The B612 Foundation is raising money for their asteroid finding space observatory by selling memorabilia from Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Shuttle\/ISS astronaut Ed Lu: B612 Foundation items in Auction Cause Charity Auctions store on eBay! 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