{"id":1137,"date":"2008-10-29T22:27:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2008-10-29T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:27:47","slug":"another-irish-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/10\/29\/another-irish-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Irish Asteroid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re coming thick and fast now! It&#8217;s only a few weeks ago that I happily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1095\">blogged about<\/a> my friend Dave McDonald becoming only the second person ever to discover an Asteroid from Irish soil. Well, another of the shining lights of Ireland&#8217;s amateur astronomical community (and another Dave as it happens) has discovered the third ever astroid from Irish soil! Dave is a very active amateur who&#8217;s involved with both Astronomy Ireland and the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies. Dave, if you&#8217;re reading this, congrats!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered just how much of a needle in a hay-stack an asteroid is check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/webtreatz.com\/content\/view\/68\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">observations of the asteroid<\/a> on Dave&#8217;s website, the animation in particular rams home the point!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re coming thick and fast now! It&#8217;s only a few weeks ago that I happily blogged about my friend Dave McDonald becoming only the second person ever to discover an Asteroid from Irish soil. Well, another of the shining lights of Ireland&#8217;s amateur astronomical community (and another Dave as it happens) has discovered the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,36,37,31],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-astronomy","tag-asteroid","tag-astronomy","tag-ifas","tag-ireland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}