{"id":56980,"date":"2025-08-10T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56980\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:12:07","slug":"meteorite-that-hit-home-is-older-than-earth-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56980\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite that hit home is older than Earth, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home&#8217;s resident said he is still finding pieces of space dust around his home from the hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The object, which has been named the McDonough meteorite, is the 27th to have been recovered from Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is something that used to be expected once every few decades and not multiple times within 20 years,&#8221; Harris said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Modern technology, in addition to an attentive public, is going to help us recover more and more meteorites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris is hoping to publish his findings on the composition and speed of the asteroid, which will help to understand the threat of further asteroids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One day there will be an opportunity, and we never know when it&#8217;s going to be, for something large to hit and create a catastrophic situation. If we can guard against that, we want to,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The home&#8217;s resident said he is still finding pieces of space dust around his home from the hit.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-56980","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\/56980","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=56980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}