{"id":140,"date":"2013-11-11T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/?p=140"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:24:31","slug":"daniel-laroccas-work-helps-iwu-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/2013\/11\/11\/daniel-laroccas-work-helps-iwu-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel LaRocca&#8217;s &#8217;13 work helps IWU Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2013\/10-observatory-offiicial-MPC-site.html\">Daniel LaRocca<\/a>\u00a0of Palatine, Ill., Kyle Connour \u201915 and Chelsea Davitt \u201914, both of Bloomington all made precise observations of asteroids resulting in the designation of the University\u2019s Mark Evans Observatory as an official observing site. \u00a0\u00a0Under the direction of Chair and Professor of Physics Linda French, the three also installed a new telescope and charge-coupled device (CCD) camera at the observatory.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u00a0also worked with Prof. Linda French, studying the properties of trojan asteroids at the\u00a0Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. He\u00a0is the co-author of the papers titled &#8221; A Rotation Study of Jovian Trojan Asteroids&#8221; , by L.M. French, R.D. Stephens, L.H. Wasserman, D. Coley, D.A. Rohl, D. La Rocca, N. Jaggi and S.M. Lederer, and &#8220;A Troop of Trojans: \u00a0Photometry of 24 Jovian Trojan Asterioids&#8221;, by L.M. French, R.D. Stephens, D.C. Coley, L.H. Wasserman, F.Vilas, and D.M. La Rocca.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Chelsea Davitt \u201914, Daniel LaRocca &#8217;13 and Kyle Connour &#8217;15 pose with the new telescope in the Mark Evans Observatory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/files\/2013\/11\/10-observatory-336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-144\" alt=\"10-observatory-336\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/files\/2013\/11\/10-observatory-336-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/files\/2013\/11\/10-observatory-336-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/files\/2013\/11\/10-observatory-336.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel LaRocca\u00a0of Palatine, Ill., Kyle Connour \u201915 and Chelsea Davitt \u201914, both of Bloomington all made precise observations of asteroids resulting in the designation of the University\u2019s Mark Evans Observatory as an official observing site. \u00a0\u00a0Under the direction of Chair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/2013\/11\/11\/daniel-laroccas-work-helps-iwu-observatory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2013classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}