{"id":32,"date":"2005-10-06T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-06-10T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T16:17:14","slug":"dont-worry-the-sky-isnt-falling-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/dont-worry-the-sky-isnt-falling-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Worry &#8211; The Sky Isn&#8217;t Falling &#8211; Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But if it starts to, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/index.html\">European Space Agency<\/a> will call <strong>Don Quixote<\/strong> to the rescue . . .<\/p>\n<p>From Science Daily: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2005\/10\/051005080418.htm\">ESA Selects Targets For Asteroid-deflecting Mission Don Quijote<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on the recommendations of asteroid experts, ESA has selected two target asteroids for its Near-Earth Object deflecting mission, Don Quijote.<\/p>\n<p>Don Quijote is an asteroid-deflecting mission currently under study by ESA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Advanced Concepts Team (ACT). Earlier this year the NEO Mission Advisory Panel (NEOMAP), consisting of well-known experts in the field, delivered to ESA a target selection report for Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future asteroid mitigation missions, identifying the relevant criteria for selecting a target and picking up two objects that meet most of those criteria. The asteroids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 temporary designations are 2002 AT4 and 1989 ML.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?page_id=36\">Click Here for a visual of the IMPACT!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But if it starts to, the ESA will call Don Quixote to the rescue . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32,28,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-astronomy","category-rocket-science","category-space-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}