{"id":5243,"date":"2011-04-29T01:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:14:25","slug":"the-energy-required-to-stop-the-earth-orbiting-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/the-energy-required-to-stop-the-earth-orbiting-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Energy Required to Stop the Earth Orbiting the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stop-the-earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5244\" title=\"stop-the-earth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stop-the-earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stop-the-earth.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stop-the-earth-340x213.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Earth and Sun Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/the-earth-is-hottest-when-it-is-furthest-from-the-sun-on-its-orbit-not-when-it-is-closest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Earth and Sun Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The energy required to stop the Earth orbiting the sun is about 2.6478 \u00d7 10^33 joules or 7.3551 \u00d7 10^29 watt hours or 6.3285*10^17 megatons of TNT.\u00a0 For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union) \u201conly\u201d produced 50 megatons of TNT worth of energy.\u00a0 So it would take about 12,657,000,000,000,000 of those nuclear bombs detonated at the correct location to stop the Earth from orbiting the sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Earth and Sun Facts The energy required to stop the Earth orbiting the sun is about 2.6478 \u00d7 10^33 joules or 7.3551 \u00d7 10^29 watt hours or 6.3285*10^17 megatons of TNT.\u00a0 For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union) \u201conly\u201d produced 50 megatons [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1144,932],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-astronomy-facts","tag-physics-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}