{"id":423,"date":"2014-10-27T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2014-11-13T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:09:13","slug":"how-far-did-we-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"How Far Did We Travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our experiment launched at\u00a012:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, July 13th and returned to Earth on Saturday, October 25th at 3:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time. \u00a0For that entire time it traveled 4.7 miles per SECOND. \u00a0Can you calculate how many miles our experiment traveled in all of that time? \u00a0Post your answer in the space below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_424\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?attachment_id=424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-424\" title=\"ISS\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ISS-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ISS-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ISS-1024x699.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Space Station: Photo Credit, NASA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The contest has been extended to Monday, November 10th at the start of school. \u00a0Certificates will be awarded to everyone who gets the answer correct to within a percent or two of the actual number. \u00a0Post your answers before Monday!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you figure it out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our experiment was in flight for 104 days, 2 hours and 47 minutes.\u00a0 That is equal to 8,995,620 seconds.\u00a0 At 4.7 miles per second, we traveled 42,279,414.\u00a0 Congratulations to all who tried.\u00a0 So many of you got an answer close to or equal to mine.\u00a0 Great work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our experiment launched at\u00a012:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, July 13th and returned to Earth on Saturday, October 25th at 3:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time. \u00a0For that entire time it traveled 4.7 miles per SECOND. \u00a0Can you calculate how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}