{"id":17692,"date":"2017-06-23T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=17692"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:12:55","slug":"asteroid-named-after-radio-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/06\/23\/asteroid-named-after-radio-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid named after radio amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Astronomical Union<\/a> has named a celestial body after a radio amateur.<\/p>\n<p>Space physicist and radio amateur Asta\u00a0Pellinen Wannberg, SM3UHV, is a professor at the Department of Physics at Ume\u00e5 University.<\/p>\n<p>She has made a ground-breaking effort to use scattering radar when studying meteors that are activated when small particles penetrate the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The name given is Asteroid 11807 Wannberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Astronomical Union has named a celestial body after a radio amateur. Space physicist and radio amateur Asta\u00a0Pellinen Wannberg, SM3UHV, is a professor at the Department of Physics at Ume\u00e5 University. She has made a ground-breaking effort to use scattering radar when studying meteors that are activated when small particles penetrate the atmosphere. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}