{"id":43420,"date":"2026-07-11T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/traces-of-a-vanished-planet-are-found\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:01:12","slug":"traces-of-a-vanished-planet-are-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/traces-of-a-vanished-planet-are-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Traces of a vanished planet are found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traces of a destroyed planet are found in a meteorite on Earth.<\/p>\n

According to the analysis so far, it is thought that this meteorite that fell and was discovered in the Sahara, may have been a fragment of a planet that was once part of our solar system, in the early stages of formation about 4.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n

It is titled Northwest Africa 12774, and it is thought that the planet it was part of had size similar to the moon and that its end came as a result of a fatal collision, which scattered its parts on rocky planets like Earth.<\/p>\n

The study was carried out by the University of Colorado Boulder, and was published in the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.<\/p>\n

Its composition is thought to include volcanic rocks among the oldest in our planetary system, characterized by an enigmatic chemical composition.<\/p>\n

high amounts of aluminum have been found in the meteorite, which is considered a sign of creation under extraordinary pressure conditions, at great depths.<\/p>\n

Such conditions can never be created in an asteroid, which means that the celestial body had large dimensions, that is, of a planet, which seems to have been completely destroyed after an impact in the early times of the Universe.<\/p>\n

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Traces of a destroyed planet are found in a meteorite on Earth. According to the analysis so far, it is thought that this meteorite that fell and was discovered in the Sahara, may have been a fragment of a planet that was once part of our solar system, in the early stages of formation about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43422,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43420\/revisions\/43422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}