{"id":661229,"date":"2013-05-31T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=c0efa9867deeb492cbea0c4d851c17be"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T22:17:02","slug":"hanging-out-and-talking-asteroids-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661229","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Out and Talking Asteroids at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Now that asteroid 1998 QE2 has safely flown by the Earth and Moon, we won&rsquo;t have another close visit from this particular space rock for about 200 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"small-node-embed-image-detail\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_small\/image\/image_file\/we_the_geeks.jpg?itok=e2lhu-E-\" alt=\"We the Geeks Asteroid Google Hangout\" title=\"We the Geeks Asteroid Google Hangout\" width=\"430\" height=\"235\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_small\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As part of the White House&rsquo;s ongoing series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/we-the-geeks\">&ldquo;We The Geeks&rdquo; Google+ Hangouts<\/a> (focused on highlighting science, technology, and innovation topics), we gathered some leaders in space exploration together for a pregame show to the near-miss of asteroid 1998 QE2.<\/div>\n<p>These experts included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tLori Garver, Deputy Administrator,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tBill Nye, Executive Director,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/\">Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tEd Lu, former astronaut and CEO,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/b612foundation.org\/\">B612 Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tPeter Diamandis, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/\">Planetary Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJose Luis Galache, Astronomer at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorplanetcenter.net\/\">International Astronomical Union&rsquo;s&nbsp;Minor Planet Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/neo.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">http:\/\/neo.jpl.nasa.gov\/<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/asteroidwatch\">http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/asteroidwatch<\/a> and via Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/asteroidwatch\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/asteroidwatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ways to Get Involved<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a competition for students and young professionals to share their most innovative ideas for a mission to an asteroid with the world&#39;s leading space experts. Check it out at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegeneration.org\/maa\" >www.spacegeneration.org\/maa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have ideas for the next &ldquo;We the Geeks&rdquo;? Use the hashtag&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/realtime?q=%23wethegeeks&amp;src=typd\">#WeTheGeeks<\/a>&nbsp;on Twitter and on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+whitehouse\/posts\">Google+<\/a>&nbsp;and let us know! Also, you can sign up to receive updates about future &ldquo;We the Geeks&rdquo; hangouts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/we-the-geeks\">Whitehouse.gov\/We-the-Geeks.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that asteroid 1998 QE2 has safely flown by the Earth and Moon, we won&rsquo;t have another close visit from this particular space rock for about 200 years. Credit: NASA As part of the White House&rsquo;s ongoing series of &ldquo;We The Geeks&rdquo; Google+ Hangouts (focused on highlighting science, technology, and innovation topics), we gathered some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}