{"id":261,"date":"2005-06-09T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2005-06-09T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T16:37:47","slug":"you_want_some_fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/09\/you_want_some_fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"You Want Some Fireworks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/spacenews.dancebeat.info\">Space News Blog<\/a> is reporting that NASA&#8217;s Deep Impact spacecraft is <a href=\"http:\/\/spacenews.dancebeat.info\/article.php\/deep_impact_spectacular_day_comet\">scheduled to hit<\/a> a comet called Tempel 1 on July 4th. Before you shed any tears, though, be aware that this crash is deliberate; the idea is to gouge a hole in the thing to see what comets are like on the inside. Tempel 1 is reportedly about half the size of Manhattan, and the crater made by the spacecraft&#8217;s &#8220;impactor&#8221; &#8212; which is a detachable projectile that will slam into the comet while the rest of the Deep Impact probe remains safely behind to observe &#8212; may range in size from a large house to a football stadium, and be up to 14 stories deep.<\/p>\n<p>Comets are already known to be &#8220;dirty snowballs&#8221; composed mostly of dust and ice, but no one has any idea what their internal structure is like, and they are also believed to contain material that&#8217;s been relatively unchanged since the formation of our system. This should be interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent Space News Blog is reporting that NASA&#8217;s Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to hit a comet called Tempel 1 on July 4th. Before you shed any tears, though, be aware that this crash is deliberate; the idea is to gouge a hole in the thing to see what comets are like on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}