{"id":182248,"date":"2024-02-08T03:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/asteroid-impact-near-berlin-reveals-rare-aubrite-treasures"},"modified":"2024-02-08T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:23:35","slug":"asteroid-impact-near-berlin-reveals-rare-aubrite-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/asteroid-impact-near-berlin-reveals-rare-aubrite-treasures","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Impact Near Berlin Reveals Rare Aubrite Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-impact-near-berlin-reveals-rare-aubrite-treasures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Jenniskens\u2019 collaborators at the Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde officially announced that the first examinations of one of these pieces with an electron beam microprobe prove the typical mineralogy and chemical composition of an achondrite of the aubrite type.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official classification now aligns with what many suspected from merely looking at the images of the strange meteorites that <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/impact-imminent-racing-to-track-asteroid-2024-bx1s-collision-course-with-earth\/\">fell near Berlin<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/three-hours-before-impact-nasa-detects-small-asteroid-on-imminent-collision-course-with-earth\/\">January 21, 2024<\/a>. They belong to a rare group called \u201caubrites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were devilishly difficult to find because, from a distance, they look like other rocks on Earth,\u201d said SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens. \u201cClose up, not so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenniskens\u2019 collaborators at the Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde officially announced that the first examinations of one of these pieces with an electron beam microprobe prove the typical mineralogy and chemical composition of an achondrite of the aubrite type. The official classification now aligns with what many suspected from merely looking at the images of the strange [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-chemistry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182248","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=182248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}