{"id":4457,"date":"2012-09-04T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2012-09-04T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:05:36","slug":"space-debris-hit-my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/space-debris-hit-my-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Debris Hit My Dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/space_debris\/IMG_6965.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/102099-2\/IMG_6965.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2000-2001, just before my dad retired from the Detroit Board of Education, he was standing outside of the school that he worked at with a coworker when glowing hot blocks &#8212; one of which is seen above &#8212; began raining down from the sky around them. No aircraft were visible overhead, and being glowing hot, partially melted, and seemingly made of ceramic, I strongly suspect that this was space debris. At almost the size of a box of matches and with a mass of only about 5g it&#8217;s terminal velocity near ground level couldn&#8217;t have been very high, which would explain how they could have been hit by them and not injured.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d forgotten about this until my parents mentioned it to me this past weekend when I moved this object from it&#8217;s place of display while helping them around the house. My dad had recently read a news article about a woman who was hit by a small piece of a disintegrating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delta_II\">Delta II<\/a> and can&#8217;t help but think that maybe he and his coworkers should be added to the (very short) list of people on Earth who have been hit by space debris.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other photos of this object can be see <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/space_debris\/\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a little dusty from sitting out for a few years, but the hollow cells and ceramic-like appearance are pretty visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000-2001, just before my dad retired from the Detroit Board of Education, he was standing outside of the school that he worked at&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/space-debris-hit-my-dad\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Debris Hit My Dad?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-found-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}