{"id":132687,"date":"2021-12-19T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T11:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/this-asteroid-may-be-the-shard-of-a-dead-protoplanet-and-have-more-metal-than-all-the-reserves-on-earth"},"modified":"2021-12-19T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T11:22:37","slug":"this-asteroid-may-be-the-shard-of-a-dead-protoplanet-and-have-more-metal-than-all-the-reserves-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/this-asteroid-may-be-the-shard-of-a-dead-protoplanet-and-have-more-metal-than-all-the-reserves-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"This Asteroid May Be the Shard of a Dead Protoplanet\u2014and Have More Metal Than All the Reserves on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-asteroid-may-be-the-shard-of-a-dead-protoplanet-and-have-more-metal-than-all-the-reserves-on-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often said Earth\u2019s resources are finite. This is true enough. But shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars, lurks an invisible bonanza of epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the materials upon which modern civilization is built exist in far greater amounts throughout the rest of the solar system. Earth, after all, was formed from the same cosmic cloud as all the other planets, comets, and asteroids\u2014and it hardly cornered the market when it comes to the valuable materials we use to make smartphone batteries or raise skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study puts it in perspective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earth\u2019s resources are finite, but shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars, lurks an invisible bonanza of epic proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s often said Earth\u2019s resources are finite. This is true enough. But shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars, lurks an invisible bonanza of epic proportions. Many of the materials upon which modern civilization is built exist in far greater amounts throughout the rest of the solar system. Earth, after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132687","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}