{"id":2112,"date":"2007-12-29T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/12\/29\/hey-i-know-that-guy\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T20:41:00","slug":"hey-i-know-that-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/12\/29\/hey-i-know-that-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey! I Know That Guy!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/R3a2KVp_QPI\/AAAAAAAABFw\/JQDi_LBfHzU\/s1600-h\/Andy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149503512672944370\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/R3a2KVp_QPI\/AAAAAAAABFw\/JQDi_LBfHzU\/s400\/Andy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>So&#8230;apparently there is a chance that an asteroid will hit Mars sometime at the end of next month. Up until a few days ago, there was a 1 in 75 chance that this might happen. That probability changed to 1 in 25 a few days ago thanks to research done by my brother-in-law, Dr. Andy Puckett, who has a PhD in Astronomy and is on staff at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. This research got him mentioned in a NASA press release and on NPR&#8217;s Science Friday. He was also mentioned in an Associated Press story where they mistakenly referred to him as a PhD student. For the full story, visit the Puckett family blog <a href=\"http:\/\/babypuckett.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/andy-is-npr-celebrity.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Here is Andy&#8217;s explanation of the photo above:<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color:#cc9933;\"><em>SDSS image of 2007 WD5. This &#8220;precovery&#8221; image extended the observed arc from 29 to 41 days, and increased the probability of impact with Mars from 1-in-75 to 1-in-25. That&#8217;s 4%! (The most likely result will still be a near-miss, but we should know more in early January.)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Way to go Andy!<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So&#8230;apparently there is a chance that an asteroid will hit Mars sometime at the end of next month. Up until a few days ago, there was a 1 in 75 chance that this might happen. That probability changed to 1 in 25 a few days ago thanks to research done by my brother-in-law, Dr. Andy&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/12\/29\/hey-i-know-that-guy\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing","category-announcements","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}