{"id":121122,"date":"2021-04-01T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/particles-of-a-meteor-explosion-from-430000-years-ago-found-hidden-in-antarctic-ice"},"modified":"2021-04-01T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:26:11","slug":"particles-of-a-meteor-explosion-from-430000-years-ago-found-hidden-in-antarctic-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/particles-of-a-meteor-explosion-from-430000-years-ago-found-hidden-in-antarctic-ice","title":{"rendered":"Particles of a Meteor Explosion From 430,000 Years Ago Found Hidden in Antarctic Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/particles-of-a-meteor-explosion-from-430000-years-ago-found-hidden-in-antarctic-ice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 430000 years ago, a meteorite exploded over Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason we know about it now is because scientists have just found tiny, once-molten particles of space rock that have been hidden away in the ice ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Based on an analysis of those particles, the event was an unusual one \u2014 not quite powerful enough to produce an impact crater, but nor was it a lightweight. The jet of melted and vaporized material that blasted from the mid-air explosion would have been more hazardous than the Tunguska event that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-a-new-theory-about-the-colossal-tunguska-event-explosion\">flattened a Siberian forest in 1908<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 430000 years ago, a meteorite exploded over Antarctica. The only reason we know about it now is because scientists have just found tiny, once-molten particles of space rock that have been hidden away in the ice ever since. Based on an analysis of those particles, the event was an unusual one \u2014 not quite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121122","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}