Scientists discover strange mineral inside meteorite

The mineral hIt had been detected by smelting, but it had not been found to have a natural origin.

A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology, in the United States, has discovered a strange mineral from the interior of a meteorite found more than 50 years ago.

The scientists baptized the mineral with the name of 'edscottite' and identified that the composition of this was carbon and iron atoms intermixed in a certain way. In addition, the mineral resembles a kind of small white crystals, despite the fact that its surface is red and black.

It is not the first time that scientists find this mineral, this because they have managed to find it through their foundries. But if it is the first time they see it originating naturally. Researchers theorize that the mineral was forged in the molten core of a planet already destroyed long ago.

Dr. Stuart Milles, curator of geosciences at the Victoria Museums (where the meteorite resides) talks about the content of the meteorite:

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According to the scientist from the Australian National University, Geoffrey Bonning, our solar system began its formation as a simple dust generated by dead stars long ago. Then that same dust began to accumulate in space at a certain point where gravity caused it to join. These became large lumps of dust that became grains of sand, then became huge chunks, and finally, became asteroids that formed into planets.

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Geoffrey Bonning explains that the rocks as a whole are somewhat radioactive to some extent, so that planet earth can melt at any moment. The meteorite was found in 1951 outside Wedderburn, Australia.