{"id":133699,"date":"2025-11-14T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/133699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:27:10","slug":"morocco-is-a-booming-meteorite-hunting-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/133699\/","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":133700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1477,234,85,46,2758,29334,83425,141,145,5565,2012,83424,10750,2711],"class_list":["post-133699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-climate-change","tag-government","tag-il","tag-israel","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}