{"id":86985,"date":"2019-01-24T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/planetary-collision-that-created-moon-also-seeded-earth-with-life-producing-elements-study"},"modified":"2019-01-24T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:22:23","slug":"planetary-collision-that-created-moon-also-seeded-earth-with-life-producing-elements-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/planetary-collision-that-created-moon-also-seeded-earth-with-life-producing-elements-study","title":{"rendered":"Planetary collision that created Moon also seeded Earth with life-producing elements \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planetary-collision-that-created-moon-also-seeded-earth-with-life-producing-elements-study2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life-producing elements came to Earth from another planet \u2014 study.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The elemental building-blocks of life arrived on Earth when it collided with a \u201cMars-sized planet\u201d 4.4 billion years ago \u2013 an impact that also created the Moon, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and other volatile elements integral to life were transferred to Earth\u2019s outer layers through collision with a slightly smaller planet rich in these elements at the beginning of its existence. This impact produced the moon and, eventually, gave rise to carbon-based life, according to a new model of Earth\u2019s development devised by petrologists at Rice University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/449561-planetary-collision-earth-moon-elements\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/449561-planetary-collision-earth-moon-elements\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life-producing elements came to Earth from another planet \u2014 study. The elemental building-blocks of life arrived on Earth when it collided with a \u201cMars-sized planet\u201d 4.4 billion years ago \u2013 an impact that also created the Moon, a new study has found. Carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and other volatile elements integral to life were transferred to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86985","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}