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The top-section of this space object is on display in the Kingdom’s National Museum<\/h3>\n The meteorite, weighing 3.5-ton, was first discovered by the British explorer St. John Philby in 1932. It has been suggested that the Wobar meteor struck this part of the world nearly 400 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\nFascinating!<\/h3>\n<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credits: Social Media\/ @TheArabHash) A team from National Geographic magazine went to Saudi Arabia 52 years ago to document a meteor that hit the Kingdom some\u00a0four centuries ago.\u00a0Photos of that day have resurfaced online and it’s pretty interesting to see how things have changed.\u00a0 The National Geographic team visited ‘Wobar’ The team went to … ","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,34],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-19-at-1.46.14-PM.png?mtime=20180319125158","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-19-at-1.46.14-PM.png?mtime=20180319125158 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"
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