{"id":8391,"date":"2017-04-21T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2017-04-25T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:39:05","slug":"asteroid-time-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/21\/asteroid-time-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Time Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431223-200-rocks-of-ages-how-meteorites-reveal-the-solar-systems-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>from New Scientist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system\u2019s history<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Clever ways to find more space debris, and pinpoint where it came from, will help us rewrite what we know about the solar system&#8217;s turbulent youth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Sophia Chen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19180000\/meteoritesmain-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"meteorite artwork\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A MAN with a Stetson perched on his head reclines in his chair, an assortment of rocks displayed in front of him. A second man in a fedora browses the collection, pausing over one specimen. The size of a chocolate bar, the silvery rock is inlaid with a mosaic of grainy grey shapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you asking for that one?\u201d asks the fedora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, somewhere around five thousand,\u201d replies the Stetson.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a routine exchange at the annual Tucson Gem, Mineral &amp; Fossil Showcase in Arizona, a marketplace for international collectors of petrified wood, dinosaur bones, gold and more. Except there\u2019s something special about this rock: it came from space.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431223-200-rocks-of-ages-how-meteorites-reveal-the-solar-systems-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click to continue reading at New Scientist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system\u2019s history Clever ways to find more space debris, and pinpoint where it came from, will help us rewrite what we know about the solar system&#8217;s turbulent youth By\u00a0Sophia Chen Shutterstock A MAN with a Stetson perched on his head reclines in his chair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}