{"id":332913,"date":"2025-12-24T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:24:07","slug":"i-sold-1965-meteorite-fragment-to-buy-a-new-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332913\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I sold 1965 meteorite fragment to buy a new bike&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was wanting a new bicycle, and I&#8217;d got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that,&#8221; David said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He bought a 10-speed Raleigh racing bike, but said his mother made him set up a bank account with the remaining money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was over the moon, literally,&#8221; David added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love space, I love astronomy, and I&#8217;m into sci-fi, and if I ever got the chance, I&#8217;d like to go up there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David went hunting for more fragments after this, with the use of a magnet, as the meteorite had iron in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He found another piece of rock and has kept it for 60 years, but it is likely slag, a material left over when iron has been smelted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was wanting a new bicycle, and I&#8217;d got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-332913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}