{"id":283800,"date":"2017-03-07T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=04bcb5ad1b0a566457465219bf8edbd6"},"modified":"2017-03-07T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:30:04","slug":"earth-is-bombarded-at-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=283800","title":{"rendered":"Earth is bombarded at random"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do mass extinctions, like the fall of the dinosaurs, and the formation of large impact craters on Earth occur together at regular intervals? &#8220;This question has been under discussion for more than thirty years now,&#8221; says Matthias Meier from ETH Zurich&#8217;s Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology. As late as 2015, US researchers indicated that impact craters were formed on Earth around every 26 million years. &#8220;We have determined, however, that asteroids don&#8217;t hit the Earth at periodic intervals,&#8221; says Meier, refuting the popular hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do mass extinctions, like the fall of the dinosaurs, and the formation of large impact craters on Earth occur together at regular intervals? &#8220;This question has been under discussion for more than thirty years now,&#8221; says Matthias Meier from ETH Zurich&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283801,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283800\/revisions\/283801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}