{"id":8408,"date":"2010-08-01T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/01\/how-we-found-hundreds-of-earth\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:52:17","slug":"how-we-found-hundreds-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/01\/how-we-found-hundreds-of-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). How many such planets have they found already? Several hundreds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DimitarSasselov_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DimitarSasselov-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=920&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=dimitar_sasselov_how_we_found_hundreds_of_earth_like_pl;year=2010;theme=peering_into_space;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). How many such planets have they found already? Several hundreds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2bC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}