The minerals were found inside a slice of the El Ali meteorite, which landed in Somalia in 2020
Two minerals that have never been seen before on Earth have been discovered inside a massive meteorite in Somalia. They could hold important clues to how asteroids form.
The two brand new minerals were found inside a single 2.5 ounce slice taken from the 16.5 ton El Ali meteorite, which crashed to Earth in 2020.
"Whenever you find a new mineral, it means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rock, was different than what's been found before," Chris Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, said in a statement."That's what makes this exciting: In this particular meteorite you have two officially described minerals that are new to science.
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