{"id":28684,"date":"2021-11-16T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=28684"},"modified":"2021-11-16T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:06:08","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-a-1-7-g-aluminium-ball-hits-an-18-cm-thick-block-of-aluminium-at-6-8-kilometres-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=28684","title":{"rendered":"This is what happens when a 1.7 g aluminium ball hits an 18-cm thick block of aluminium at 6.8 kilometres per second"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is what happens when a 1.7 g aluminium ball hits an 18-cm thick block of aluminium at 6.8 kilometres per second.<br><br>Which is about 15% slower than the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Space_Station?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Space_Station<\/a>&#39;s orbital velocity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fXltcpCg5S\">pic.twitter.com\/fXltcpCg5S<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePlanetaryGuy\/status\/1460357270554959885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploration-spaciale","category-physique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28685,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684\/revisions\/28685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}