{"id":1135,"date":"2016-01-07T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/4-5-billion-year-old-meteorite-from-beyond-mars-makes-its-way-to-australia\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:51:07","slug":"4-5-billion-year-old-meteorite-from-beyond-mars-makes-its-way-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/4-5-billion-year-old-meteorite-from-beyond-mars-makes-its-way-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"4.5 billion-year-old meteorite from beyond Mars makes its way to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meteorite\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA3LzFmL21ldGVvcml0ZS4xYTVmNS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/86ce1e44\/460\/meteorite.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=4.5+billion-year-old+meteorite+from+beyond+Mars+makes+its+way+to+Australia&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F07%2Fbillion-year-meteorite-australia%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F07%2Fbillion-year-meteorite-australia%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A meteorite from a galaxy far, far away touched down in Australia just in time for the New Year. Well, it&#8217;s likely to have come from the meteor belt between Mars and Jupiter, but that&#8217;s still a pretty healthy distance.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Bland, a planetary geologist at Western Australia&#8217;s Curtin University, found the ancient meteorite on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/06\/alien-civilizations-star-clusters\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Intelligent alien civilizations may thrive in star clusters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 1.7 kilogram (3.7 pound) meteorite was retrieved thanks to a system of 32 remote cameras that are part of the Desert Fireball Network and stationed in the outback, Bland told <em>Mashable Australia<\/em>. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got all these cameras, automated observatories out in the bush,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are built to see any fireballs coming through the atmosphere and then notify us.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/07\/billion-year-meteorite-australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/space\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Space<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/meteorites\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Meteorites<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452147783' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452147783'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/7h387igQYeU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteorite from a galaxy far, far away touched down in Australia just in time for the New Year. Well, it&#8217;s likely to have come from the meteor belt between Mars and Jupiter, but that&#8217;s still a pretty healthy distance. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/4-5-billion-year-old-meteorite-from-beyond-mars-makes-its-way-to-australia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,691,1,38,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-meteorites","category-other","category-space","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}