{"id":91868,"date":"2019-06-10T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mass-anomaly-detected-under-the-moons-largest-crater"},"modified":"2019-06-10T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:42:38","slug":"mass-anomaly-detected-under-the-moons-largest-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mass-anomaly-detected-under-the-moons-largest-crater","title":{"rendered":"Mass anomaly detected under the moon\u2019s largest crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mass-anomaly-detected-under-the-moons-largest-crater3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system\u2014the Moon\u2019s South Pole-Aitken basin\u2014and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That\u2019s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,\u201d said lead author Peter B. James.<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., assistant professor of planetary geophysics in Baylor\u2019s College of Arts &amp; Sciences. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crater\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crater<\/a> itself is oval-shaped, as wide as 2,000 kilometers\u2014roughly the distance between Waco, Texas, and Washington, D.C.\u2014and several miles deep. Despite its size, it cannot be seen from Earth because it is on the far side of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-mass-anomaly-moon-largest-crater.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system\u2014the Moon\u2019s South Pole-Aitken basin\u2014and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study. \u201cImagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}