{"id":1237601,"date":"2025-03-06T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237601"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:30:05","slug":"huge-impact-crater-in-australia-breaks-record-for-worlds-oldest-by-over-a-billion-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237601","title":{"rendered":"Huge Impact Crater in Australia Breaks Record for World\u2019s Oldest by Over a Billion Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"The crater is in Western Australia's Pilbara.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/western-australia-impact-crater-896x597.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\"><\/p>\n<p>A rocky stretch in Western Australia&#8217;s Pilbara, near Earth&#8217;s earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rocky stretch in Western Australia&#8217;s Pilbara, near Earth&#8217;s earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}