{"id":26968,"date":"2016-06-16T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:13:57","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Unearthed A Completely New Kind Of Meteorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say that in a Swedish quarry, they\u2019ve uncovered a meteorite unlike any other documented on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Its chemical makeup is unique among the 50,000 meteorites known on Earth, as Birger Schmitz of Sweden\u2019s Lund University tells The Two-Way. \u201cThis does not resemble anything \u2026 even if we look at the big types that exist today and look at the broad ranges, this one falls completely outside of everything,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"featuredStackSquareImage481934630\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/15\/481934630\/gravitational-waves-from-colliding-black-holes-shake-scientists-detectors-again\" data-metrics='{\"category\":\"Story to Story\",\"action\":\"Click Internal Link\",\"label\":\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/15\/481934630\/gravitational-waves-from-colliding-black-holes-shake-scientists-detectors-again\"}' ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite2.jpg\" class=\"\" title=\"The black holes were 14 and 8 times the mass of the sun. As they spiraled together, they sent out gravitational waves.\" alt=\"The black holes were 14 and 8 times the mass of the sun. As they spiraled together, they sent out gravitational waves.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/15\/482195719\/scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/15\/482195719\/...-meteorite<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say that in a Swedish quarry, they\u2019ve uncovered a meteorite unlike any other documented on the planet. Its chemical makeup is unique among the 50,000 meteorites known on Earth, as Birger Schmitz of Sweden\u2019s Lund University tells The Two-Way. \u201cThis does not resemble anything \u2026 even if we look at the big types that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61469,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions\/61469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}