{"id":1763,"date":"2012-12-21T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2012-12-21T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:37:16","slug":"record-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/21\/record-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Record impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Sutter\u2019s Mill meteorite entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere at 64,000 mph<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/california-sutters-mill-meteorite-entered-earths-atmosphere-at-64000-mph-21261928\/\">http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/california-sutters-mill-meteorite-entered-earths-atmosphere-at-64000-mph-21261928\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the explosion was estimated to be about a quarter of size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunguska_event\">Tunguska event<\/a>, for comparison, was estimated to be 10-15 megatons, or 1,000 times the Hiroshima.  These things could be quite sever even if they are not &#8216;dinosaur killers&#8217;, yet we spend pennies per person looking for them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayan_apocalypse#2012_and_the_Long_Count\">Mayan Apocalypse<\/a>: we get an asteroid upside the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Sutter\u2019s Mill meteorite entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere at 64,000 mph http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/california-sutters-mill-meteorite-entered-earths-atmosphere-at-64000-mph-21261928\/ Note that the explosion was estimated to be about a quarter of size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The Tunguska event, for comparison, was estimated to be 10-15 megatons, or 1,000 times the Hiroshima. These things could be quite sever even if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/21\/record-impact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Record impact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}