{"id":11224,"date":"2021-03-07T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11224"},"modified":"2021-03-21T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:03:52","slug":"bowling-ball-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/07\/bowling-ball-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowling Ball from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/vermont-meteor-explodes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from LiveScience<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meteor explodes over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds of TNT<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the size of a bowling ball but exploded like 440 pounds of TNT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/author\/rafi-letzter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rafi Letzter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meteor Over Northern Vermont Seen By People Around New England\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_NOK9-_Y8d4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A meteor streaked through the night sky over Vermont on Sunday (March 7), creating a spectacular light show and causing Earth-shaking booms as it burned through the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meteor&#8217;s explosive passage through the atmosphere released the equivalent of 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of TNT, suggesting that the meteor was likely 10 pounds (4.5 kg) and 6 inches (15 centimeters) in diameter, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NasaMeteorWatch\/posts\/3886507294741801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>NASA Meteor Watch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The space rock smacked into the atmosphere at about 42,000 mph (68,000 kph), according to NASA. It appeared over the northern part of the state as a bright fireball at 5:38 p.m. EST, just before sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/vermont-meteor-explodes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LIVESCIENCE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LiveScience Meteor explodes over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds of TNT It was the size of a bowling ball but exploded like 440 pounds of TNT By\u00a0Rafi Letzter A meteor streaked through the night sky over Vermont on Sunday (March 7), creating a spectacular light show and causing Earth-shaking booms as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}