{"id":13144,"date":"2020-12-20T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=13144"},"modified":"2021-02-07T19:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T03:41:38","slug":"ucla-professor-david-jewitt-featured-on-veritasium-episode-these-are-the-asteroids-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=13144","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Professor David Jewitt Featured on Veritasium Episode &#8216;These are the asteroids to worry about&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/ucla.edu\">UCLA<\/a> Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ess.ucla.edu\/~jewitt\/David_Jewitt.html\">David Jewitt<\/a> featured on a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/veritasium.com\">Veritasium (Derek Muller) <\/a>fun-filled episode discussing the threat of asteroids encountering the Earth and the effects on life! The science of asteroid orbits and the importance of why they are studied as a hot topic in Solar System science is discussed in detail in this episode.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"These are the asteroids to worry about\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Wrc4fHSCpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out UCLA Professor David Jewitt featured on a recent Veritasium (Derek Muller) fun-filled episode discussing the threat of asteroids encountering the Earth and the effects on life! The science of asteroid orbits and the importance of why they are studied as a hot topic in Solar System science is discussed in detail in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=13144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UCLA Professor David Jewitt Featured on Veritasium Episode &#8216;These are the asteroids to worry about&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,304,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13145,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions\/13145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}