{"id":751,"date":"2009-07-22T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=751"},"modified":"2009-07-22T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:22:07","slug":"asteroid-named-after-casgc-ucla-campus-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Named after CaSGC UCLA Campus Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h6 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 116px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-757\" title=\"russell_interview\" src=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/russell_interview.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Professor Christopher Russell, UCLA\" width=\"106\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Christopher Russell. Photo Courtesy JPL\/NASA.<\/h3>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">CaSGC Campus Director for the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Christopher Russell, is the Principal Investigator for the <a title=\"Dawn Mission\" href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawn Mission<\/a> to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. In 2008<em>, <\/em>the International Astronomical Union named <em>Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell <\/em>in his honor. For more information, click <a title=\"Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell\" href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/science\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h6 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 297px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-752\" title=\"2_chrisrussell_orbit\" src=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2_chrisrussell_orbit.jpg\" alt=\"Asteroid 21459chrisrussell\" width=\"287\" height=\"156\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Asteroid <em>21459 Chrisrussell<\/em>. Photo courtesy JPL\/NASA.<\/h3>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h6>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Russell. Photo Courtesy JPL\/NASA. CaSGC Campus Director for the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Christopher Russell, is the Principal Investigator for the Dawn Mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. In 2008, the International Astronomical Union named Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell in his honor. For more information, click here. Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell. Photo courtesy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}