{"id":725846,"date":"2010-04-29T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T04:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/did-earth%e2%80%99s-water-arrive-on-a-meteor\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T04:04:23","slug":"did-earth%e2%80%99s-water-arrive-on-a-meteor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725846","title":{"rendered":"Did Earth\u2019s Water Arrive on a Meteor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6045 alignnone\" title=\"themismain\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/themismain.jpg?resize=345%2C226\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Scientists believe that the discovery of ice and organic molecules on an asteroid lingering in orbit between Mars and Jupiter hints at the origin of Earth\u2019s oceans and life 4 billion years ago.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water,&#8221; said UCF Physics Professor HumbertoCampins, the lead author of a study which will be published in the April 29 edition of the journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some theories posit that Earth formed dry, and that it was asteroids that brought Earth it\u2019s water. Salts and water found in some meteorites have added credibility to the theory. <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/did-earth%e2%80%99s-water-arrive-on-a-meteor\/#more-6044\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe that the discovery of ice and organic molecules on an asteroid lingering in orbit between Mars and Jupiter hints at the origin of Earth\u2019s oceans and life 4 billion years ago. &#8220;What we&#8217;ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water,&#8221; said UCF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32Pc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}