{"id":16020,"date":"2016-01-11T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2016-01-11T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:21:32","slug":"relieved-nasa-opens-planetary-defense-coordination-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/relieved-nasa-opens-planetary-defense-coordination-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Relieved? NASA opens Planetary Defense Coordination Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"repubhubembed\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">If a monster asteroid is headed towards Earth, perhaps the planet is a little more prepared. NASA announced Friday that the Planetary Defense Coordination Office is now open for business, tasked with a succinct mission: to track and characterizing all asteroids and comets that veer too close to Earth &#8211; and figure out a response to&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style>.rhexcerpt{display:none;}<\/style>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/view.act?p=NzI4MA==&#038;c=MzY0MTA0OTA=&#038;fuid=MjEzMjc3NTU=&#038;showDate=true\" height=\"1500\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border:0;overflow-x:hidden;background:transparent;\" allowtransparency=\"yes\" scrolling=\"no\" data-size=\"2902\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a monster asteroid is headed towards Earth, perhaps the planet is a little more prepared. NASA announced Friday that the Planetary Defense Coordination Office is now open for business, tasked with a succinct mission: to track and characterizing all asteroids and comets that veer too close to Earth &#8211; and figure out a response &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/relieved-nasa-opens-planetary-defense-coordination-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Relieved? NASA opens Planetary Defense Coordination Office<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}