{"id":708620,"date":"2021-11-17T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708620"},"modified":"2021-11-17T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:59:48","slug":"cosmic-dust-may-be-key-source-of-phosphorus-for-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708620","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic dust may be key source of phosphorus for life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, any phosphorus that was present likely sank into the molten core because of the element&#8217;s distinct chemical properties. However, phosphorus is essential for life; it is found in DNA, RNA, and other important biological molecules. So it is probable that the phosphorus that made life possible was delivered to Earth&#8217;s surface from extraterrestrial origins, and previous studies have suggested meteorites as potential sources.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-cosmic-key-source-phosphorus-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cosmic dust may be key source of phosphorus for life on Earth<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, any phosphorus that was present likely sank into the molten core because of the element&#8217;s distinct chemical properties. However, phosphorus is essential for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708620","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708620\/revisions"}],"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=708620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}