{"id":12849,"date":"2024-10-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2024-09-27T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T06:00:35","slug":"the-biggest-impact-structure-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/the-biggest-impact-structure-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Impact Structure On Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">The Vredefort impact in South Africa, caused by a massive 25 km-wide asteroid, is the largest known impact structure on Earth, originally spanning 280 km. This event occurred about 2 billion years ago, long before the dinosaurs, and left a crater much larger than the one from the asteroid that killed the non-avian dinosaurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vredefort impact in South Africa, caused by a massive 25 km-wide asteroid, is the largest known impact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/31\/Vredefort_Dome_STS51I-33-56AA.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[211,1798,1800,1801,341,826,1803,1802,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-12849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"category-space","9":"tag-asteroid","10":"tag-crater","11":"tag-impact-crater","12":"tag-impact-structure","13":"tag-scishow","14":"tag-south-africa","15":"tag-vredefort","16":"tag-vredefort-impact-structure","17":"tag-youtube","18":"post_format-post-format-video","19":"cs-entry","20":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12850,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions\/12850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}