{"id":4705,"date":"2013-06-20T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/clemsonworld\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2013-06-20T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:40:03","slug":"planet-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/planet-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet hunter: Dirk C. Terrell \u201987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physics major Dirk Terrell\u2019s work was recognized as one of CNN\u2019s Top Ten science stories for 2012. He helped discover a planet.<br \/>\nTerrell\u2019s research in the area of binary star systems contributed to a Yale University-led project that identified and confirmed the existence of the first known planet orbiting a pair of suns \u2014 that\u2019s in turn orbited by a second set of distant stars. The planet was named PH1 \u2014 Planet Hunters discovery number one \u2014 after the citizen astronomer organization, Planet Hunters, whose members first spotted it.<br \/>\nTerrell is the section manager for the Astronomy and Computer Systems section in the Department of Space Studies at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. He received a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Florida and was a NASA graduate research fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics major Dirk Terrell\u2019s work was recognized as one of CNN\u2019s Top Ten science stories for 2012. He helped discover a planet. Terrell\u2019s research in the area of binary star systems contributed to a Yale University-led project that identified and confirmed the existence of the first known planet orbiting a pair of suns \u2014 that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[2690],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-spring-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/Dirk-Terrell-87.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}