{"id":95893,"date":"2019-09-07T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/a-siberian-meteorite-revealed-a-new-mineral-weve-never-seen-before-on-earth"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:04:03","slug":"a-siberian-meteorite-revealed-a-new-mineral-weve-never-seen-before-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/a-siberian-meteorite-revealed-a-new-mineral-weve-never-seen-before-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"A Siberian Meteorite Revealed a New Mineral We\u2019ve Never Seen Before on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-siberian-meteorite-revealed-a-new-mineral-weve-never-seen-before-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When gold hunters in Russia collected the yellowish stone in 2016, they thought it might contain a precious metal. It didn\u2019t \u2014 but what it did contain was far more rare and valuable.<\/p>\n<p>The rock had come from space, and it contained a new, never-before-seen mineral.<\/p>\n<p>It has yet to be officially documented, but scientists have named it uakitite, after the Uakit region in Siberia where the meteorite fell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 When gold hunters in Russia collected the yellowish stone in 2016, they thought it might contain a precious metal. It didn\u2019t \u2014 but what it did contain was far more rare and valuable. The rock had come from space, and it contained a new, never-before-seen mineral. It has yet to be officially documented, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95893","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=95893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}