This girl wanted to know how high a bowling ball shot from a black powder cannon would go.
She has her great grandfather's black powder cannon at hand, a bowling ball and a GoPro camera that's about to take a ride into orbit.
How far do you think it will go?
Watch the video below and see for yourself:
Girl fires bowling ball out of cannon for science
This 7th grader strapped a GoPro camera to a bowling ball and fired it out of her great-grandfather?s cannon ? for science! https://abcn.ws/2wMKW2A
Posted by ABC News on Thursday, May 17, 2018
The footage from the spinning bowling ball's GoPro camera is absolutely amazing.
Great job on an awesome science experiment, Emma! Ballistic science is always more fun than anything else in our lesson plans.
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