{"id":199220,"date":"2024-11-11T00:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/we-finally-know-where-most-meteorites-on-earth-actually-came-from"},"modified":"2024-11-16T05:47:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T11:47:34","slug":"we-finally-know-where-most-meteorites-on-earth-actually-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/we-finally-know-where-most-meteorites-on-earth-actually-came-from","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know Where Most Meteorites on Earth Actually Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-where-most-meteorites-on-earth-actually-came-from2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/200-mars-meteorites-that-hit-earth-were-ejected-from-just-5-craters\">back to their parent body<\/a> out in space \u2013 but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories for more than 90 percent of meteorites today.<\/p>\n<p>Past analyses of meteorites striking our planet today suggest some kind of shared origin; they\u2019re made from very similar materials and have been <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/95JE01903\">baked by cosmic radiation<\/a> for a suspiciously short amount of time, hinting at a relatively recent break-up from shared parent bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The teams behind three new published papers used a combination of super-detailed telescope observations and computer modeling simulations to compare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\">asteroids out in space<\/a> with meteorites recovered on Earth, matching up rock types and orbital paths between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space \u2013 but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories for more than 90 percent of meteorites today. Past analyses of meteorites striking our planet today suggest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199220","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199579,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199220\/revisions\/199579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}