Two minerals never before been seen on Earth found inside 17-ton meteorite

[Still Waters]

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 (70 gram) slice taken from the 16.5 ton (15 metric tons) El Ali meteorite, which crashed to Earth in 2020. Scientists named the minerals elaliite after the meteor and elkinstantonite after Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the managing director of the Arizona State University Interplanetary Initiative and principal investigator of NASA's upcoming Psyche mission, which will send a probe to investigate the mineral-rich Psyche asteroid for evidence of how our solar system's planets formed.

https://www.livescience.com/two-new-minerals-found-inside-meteorite

The two minerals found came from a single 70 gram slice that was sent to the U of A for classification, and there already appears to be a potential third mineral under consideration. If researchers were to obtain more samples from the massive meteorite, there’s a chance that even more might be found,

https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html

[jethrofloyd]

12 minutes ago, Still Waters said:

If researchers were to obtain more samples from the massive meteorite, there’s a chance that even more might be found,

They might find the Superman's a green, crystalline mineral Kryptonite.

[+and-then]

15 tons?  I had no idea they could survive at that size.

[quiXilver]

1 hour ago, jethrofloyd said:

They might find the Superman's a green, crystalline mineral Kryptonite.

I've got a reliable source...

[the13bats]

[Myles]

Am I the only one that found this line odd?  Maybe it is just me, but I would expect there to be minerals in the universe that are not found natively on Earth.

"It's perhaps hard to imagine that there exist minerals in the universe that are not found natively on Earth"

[Jon the frog]

The rock didn't fell in 2020, it was identified in 2020. It was a known rock for ages.

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=74444

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by Jon the frog

[Robotic Jew]

1 hour ago, Myles said:

Am I the only one that found this line odd?  Maybe it is just me, but I would expect there to be minerals in the universe that are not found natively on Earth.

"It's perhaps hard to imagine that there exist minerals in the universe that are not found natively on Earth"

I thought the same thing when I read it. Given the size differences of the 2 at the least you'd think it would be more likely for stuff to exist we've never seen before. But I'm not a scientist so maybe I'm missing some information about possible known combinations of crap or something. 

[+joc]

On 11/28/2022 at 2:32 PM, and-then said:

15 tons?  I had no idea they could survive at that size.

15 tons and what do you get?  Two new minerals and deeper in debt.

[+and-then]

3 hours ago, joc said:

15 tons and what do you get?  Two new minerals and deeper in debt.

I did a bit of digging to see just how big these things can be.  I'd have thought one of this size would have created a tremendous impact crater and or damage as it came to earth.  Seems there are several that were larger.

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-are-the-6-biggest-meteorites-to-ever-to-be-found-on-earth