{"id":3925450,"date":"2026-04-13T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/is-the-moon-more-iron-rich-than-what-we-thought\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:03:18","slug":"is-the-moon-more-iron-rich-than-what-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/is-the-moon-more-iron-rich-than-what-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the moon more iron-rich than what we thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The moon is Earth&#8217;s only natural satellite, a rocky celestial body that orbits our planet at an average distance of about 384,000 kilometers. The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the moon&#8217;s origin is the &#8220;giant impact,&#8221; a high-energy collision between a Mars-sized proto-planet named Theia with the young &#8220;proto-Earth&#8221; about 4.5 billion years ago. As the newly formed moon cooled down from a hot magma ocean, layers with varying iron-content and mineral compositions crystallized to form the moon&#8217;s structure that we know today.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-moon-iron-rich-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon is Earth&#8217;s only natural satellite, a rocky celestial body that orbits our planet at an average distance of about 384,000 kilometers. The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the moon&#8217;s origin is the &#8220;giant impact,&#8221; a high-energy collision between a Mars-sized proto-planet named Theia with the young &#8220;proto-Earth&#8221; about 4.5 billion years ago. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}