{"id":117166,"date":"2020-12-15T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientist-left-speechless-after-opening-asteroid-samples"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:25:20","slug":"scientist-left-speechless-after-opening-asteroid-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientist-left-speechless-after-opening-asteroid-samples","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Left \u201cSpeechless\u201d After Opening Asteroid Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-left-speechless-after-opening-asteroid-samples.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we actually opened it, I was speechless,\u201d JAXA scientist Hirotaka Sawada said, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/15\/asteroid-samples-leave-japanese-scientists-speechless\">quoted by <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt was more than we expected and there was so much that I was truly impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the sample was outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t fine particles like powder, but there were plenty of samples that measured several millimeters across,\u201d Sawada added, according to <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we actually opened it, I was speechless,\u201d JAXA scientist Hirotaka Sawada said, as quoted by The Guardian. \u201cIt was more than we expected and there was so much that I was truly impressed.\u201d The quality of the sample was outstanding. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t fine particles like powder, but there were plenty of samples that measured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}