{"id":442,"date":"2006-05-11T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=442"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T17:18:59","slug":"chunka-chunka-great-big-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/chunka-chunka-great-big-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Chunka chunka great big asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists didn’t think it was possible to find pieces of large asteroids that have struck the Earth’s surface.<\/p>\n

When a large impactor strikes the Earth, a colossal amount of heat is produced; and the asteroid material is believed to vaporise or fuse with the surrounding rocks. A 10-km-diameter impactor is thought to generate temperatures of between 1,700-14,000C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But as reported by the BBC,<\/a> chunks of asteroid have been discovered in a 145 million-year-old, 100 mile-wide crater in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists didn’t think it was possible to find pieces of large asteroids that have struck the Earth’s surface. When a large impactor strikes the Earth, a colossal amount of heat is produced; and the asteroid material is believed to vaporise … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1068,1069],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-asteroid","tag-morokweng-crater"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}