{"id":19603,"date":"2015-11-25T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T22:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/mining-the-solar-system-will-it-spawn-the-next-google"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:55","slug":"mining-the-solar-system-will-it-spawn-the-next-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/mining-the-solar-system-will-it-spawn-the-next-google","title":{"rendered":"Mining the Solar System \u2013Will it Spawn the Next Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mining-the-solar-system-will-it-spawn-the-next-google2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asteroids are primordial material left over from the formation of the Solar System. They are scattered throughout it: some pass close to the Sun, and others are found out beyond the orbit of Neptune. A vast majority have been collected by Jupiter\u2019s gravity into a belt between it and Mars \u2013 an area known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asteroid_belt\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Asteroid belt\">Main Belt<\/a>. As it turns out, we have been discovering thousands of asteroids that do not belong to the Main Belt, but instead pass near Earth\u2019s orbit \u2013 nearly 9,000 to date, with almost a thousand more are discovered every year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2015\/11\/mining-the-milky-way-will-it-spawn-the-next-google.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroids are primordial material left over from the formation of the Solar System. They are scattered throughout it: some pass close to the Sun, and others are found out beyond the orbit of Neptune. A vast majority have been collected by Jupiter\u2019s gravity into a belt between it and Mars \u2013 an area known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69134,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions\/69134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}