{"id":91,"date":"2007-10-07T02:33:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T09:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specfic.philsites.net\/2007\/10\/07\/christopher-go-a-filipino-discoverer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T02:33:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T09:33:46","slug":"christopher-go-a-filipino-discoverer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/2007\/10\/07\/christopher-go-a-filipino-discoverer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Go: a Filipino Discoverer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I wasn&#8217;t reading the newspapers last year. I missed the story that came out on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christone.net\/astro\/aboutme.htm\">Christopher Go<\/a>, the Cebu-based Filipino astronomer who discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/02mar_redjr.htm\">a former white spot in Jupiter had turned red<\/a>. He was accepted into the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aas.org\/\">American Astronomical Society<\/a> in September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/charles-tan.blogspot.com\">Charles<\/a> for the info! Mr. Go&#8217;s dedication as an amateur astronomer is simply inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>Browsing through Mr. Go&#8217;s homepage, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christone.net\/astro\/leonid2001.htm\">the photos he took of the 2001 Leonids<\/a> [ <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=jx4OamXkyr4\">Youtube<\/a> ]. I vaguely remember looking forward to this event and uh, sleeping through it ^^; Not that I had a telescope or anything, but I would&#8217;ve wanted to be with friends who&#8217;d gathered out in wide empty spaces just to see it.<\/p>\n<p>It seems it&#8217;s being predicted that the next meteor storm of such a scale would occur only in 2099.<\/p>\n<p>I suck.<\/p>\n<p>Would be great to be alive in 2099 just to see that, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I wasn&#8217;t reading the newspapers last year. I missed the story that came out on Christopher Go, the Cebu-based Filipino astronomer who discovered that a former white spot in Jupiter had turned red. He was accepted into the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society in September 2006. Thanks to Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}