{"id":3926614,"date":"2026-06-21T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/sonic-booms-from-meteors-can-release-the-energy-of-hundreds-of-tons-of-tnt-heres-how-they-work\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:01:29","slug":"sonic-booms-from-meteors-can-release-the-energy-of-hundreds-of-tons-of-tnt-heres-how-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/sonic-booms-from-meteors-can-release-the-energy-of-hundreds-of-tons-of-tnt-heres-how-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic booms from meteors can release the energy of hundreds of tons of TNT. Here&#8217;s how they work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For the most part, our world glides silently through space, shielded by Earth&#8217;s thin atmosphere.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-sonic-booms-meteors-energy-hundreds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For the most part, our world glides silently through space, shielded by Earth&#8217;s thin atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}