{"id":18695,"date":"2022-09-28T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hvcc-professor-comments-on-nasas-dart\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:30:49","slug":"hvcc-professor-comments-on-nasas-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hvcc-professor-comments-on-nasas-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"HVCC Professor comments on NASA&#8217;s DART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 27, Assistant Professor Richard Monda, who teaches Physics and Astronomy, spoke with WTEN ABC News 10 about NASA&#8217;s successful spacecraft\/asteroid collision, known as a Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART, around 7:14 p.m. ET Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket carrying DART launched in November 2021. Through seven million miles of space, it watched the 500-foot diameter asteroid for about 10 months, and then hit it Monday with an impact of 14,000 mph. NASA determined the &#8220;crash&#8221; changed the asteroid\u2019s orbit, which was the goal!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news10.com\/news\/science\/hvcc-professor-gives-insight-to-nasa-asteroid-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to access the News 10 article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:30:49 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Oct. 27, Assistant Professor Richard Monda, who teaches Physics and Astronomy, spoke with WTEN ABC News 10 about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}