{"id":140605,"date":"2025-11-15T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140605\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:15:10","slug":"morocco-is-a-booming-meteorite-hunting-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140605\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco is a Booming Meteorite Hunting Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When a fireball from space crashed into the rocky plains of southeast Morocco in September, Mohamed Benitjit topped up the credit on his mobile phone and packed a bag with a tiny magnet and a few clothes, ready to set off in search of meteorite fragments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cI just need to know where it landed,\u201d the 52-year-old merchant said in Enzala, a village at the foothills of the Atlas mountains. \u201cInformation is everything in our trade. It doesn\u2019t come easy since whoever finds something likes to keep it for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a fireball from space crashed into the rocky plains of southeast Morocco in September, Mohamed Benitjit topped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2885,1523,61,60,2704,30898,81004,82,247,9707,6306,81003,18976,386],"class_list":["post-140605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-climate-change","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mars","tag-morocco","tag-natural-history-museum-the","tag-science","tag-space","tag-sustainable-development","tag-tourism","tag-tribeca-strategic-acquisitio","tag-valuation","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}