{"id":205721,"date":"2025-02-06T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/meteorite-discovery-challenges-long-held-theories-on-earths-missing-elements"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:24:37","slug":"meteorite-discovery-challenges-long-held-theories-on-earths-missing-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/meteorite-discovery-challenges-long-held-theories-on-earths-missing-elements","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth\u2019s missing elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteorite-discovery-challenges-long-held-theories-on-earths-missing-elements2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding where Earth\u2019s essential elements came from\u2014and why some are missing\u2014has long puzzled scientists. Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adq7848\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> reveals a surprising twist in the story of our planet\u2019s formation.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by Arizona State University\u2019s Assistant Professor Damanveer Grewal from the School of Molecular Sciences and School of Earth and Space Exploration, in collaboration with researchers from Caltech, Rice University, and MIT, challenges traditional theories about why Earth and Mars are depleted in moderately volatile elements (MVEs).<\/p>\n<p>MVEs like copper and zinc play a crucial role in planetary chemistry, often accompanying life-essential elements such as water, carbon, and nitrogen. Understanding their origin provides vital clues about why Earth became a habitable world. Earth and Mars contain significantly fewer MVEs than primitive meteorites (chondrites), raising fundamental questions about planetary formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding where Earth\u2019s essential elements came from\u2014and why some are missing\u2014has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new study reveals a surprising twist in the story of our planet\u2019s formation. A new study led by Arizona State University\u2019s Assistant Professor Damanveer Grewal from the School of Molecular Sciences and School of Earth and Space Exploration, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205721","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=205721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}