{"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 meteorite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you read that correctly. She was hit by an object falling from&nbsp;space.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re first thought is to assume that she should be dead (or at least footless). The article doesn\u2019t even mention that the impact hurt.<\/p>\n<p>So I did some quick research. The meteor would have reached <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextbook.com\/facts\/JianHuang.shtml\">terminal velocity<\/a> well before impact. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gi.alaska.edu\/ScienceForum\/ASF1\/190.html\">Terminal velocity for medium-sized meteors is only around 45 miles per hour<\/a>. This one was much, much smaller (looks to be only around 1\u20132 inches in diameter). That means its terminal velocity is below 45&nbsp;mph.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess it felt like getting hit in the foot by a baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British girl was struck in the foot by a meteorite. Yeah, you read that correctly. She was hit by an object falling from&nbsp;space. If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re first thought is to assume that she should be dead (or at least footless). The article doesn\u2019t even mention that the impact hurt. So I did \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/28\/she-never-saw-it-coming\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cShe Never Saw It Coming\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_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":"","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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}