{"id":10492,"date":"2010-07-13T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10492"},"modified":"2010-07-13T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:48:08","slug":"launch-pad-day-two-origins-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10492","title":{"rendered":"Launch Pad, Day Two: Origins of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To check out all the Launch Pad posts so far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/tags\/read\/nonfiction\/launch-pad\/\">visit this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question from <a href=\"http:\/\/ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com\/\">Ian Randal Strock<\/a>, Mike Brotherton sent us this youtube video on the Origins of the Moon:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/m8P5ujNwEwM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/m8P5ujNwEwM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Last night, when Kevin R. Grazier&#8217;s lecture on the solar system and the cassini probe lasted three hours, an extra hour more than scheduled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrievaughn.com\/\">Carrie Vaughn<\/a> noted, &#8220;Back when I was in second grade, in the astronomy text book I loved so much, that whole lecture could only have lasted fifteen minutes. That&#8217;s how much more we know now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To check out all the Launch Pad posts so far, visit this link. In response to a question from Ian Randal Strock, Mike Brotherton sent us this youtube video on the Origins of the Moon: Last night, when Kevin R. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}