{"id":973,"date":"2002-08-28T09:26:44","date_gmt":"2002-08-28T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/28\/she-never-saw-it-coming\/"},"modified":"2002-08-28T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2002-08-28T17:26:44","slug":"she-never-saw-it-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/28\/she-never-saw-it-coming","title":{"rendered":"She Never Saw It Coming\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2218755.stm\">A British girl was struck in the foot by a mete\u00adorite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you read that cor\u00adrect\u00adly. She was hit by an object falling from space.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re first thought is to assume that she should be dead (or at least foot\u00adless). The arti\u00adcle does\u00adn\u2019t even men\u00adtion that the impact hurt.<\/p>\n<p>So I did some quick research. The mete\u00ador would have reached <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextbook.com\/facts\/JianHuang.shtml\">ter\u00admi\u00adnal veloc\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> well before impact. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gi.alaska.edu\/ScienceForum\/ASF1\/190.html\">Ter\u00admi\u00adnal veloc\u00adi\u00adty for medi\u00adum-sized mete\u00adors is only around 45 miles per hour<\/a>. This one was much, much small\u00ader (looks to be only around 1\u20132 inch\u00ades in diam\u00ade\u00adter). That means its ter\u00admi\u00adnal veloc\u00adi\u00adty is below 45 mph.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess it felt like get\u00adting hit in the foot by a base\u00adball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British girl was struck in the foot by a mete\u00adorite. Yeah, you read that cor\u00adrect\u00adly. She was hit by an object falling from space. If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re first thought is to assume that she should be dead (or at least foot\u00adless). The arti\u00adcle does\u00adn\u2019t even men\u00adtion that the impact hurt. So I \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/28\/she-never-saw-it-coming\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cShe Nev\u00ader Saw It Com\u00ading\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}