Scientists have discovered two minerals never seen before on Earth inside a massive meteorite in Somalia that may hold important clues about how asteroids formed.
The two new minerals were found within a single 70g piece taken from the ‘El Ali’ meteorite, which collided with Earth in 2020, and weighed 16.5 tonnes (15 tons).
And according to the scientific affairs website “Live Science” and its publication, Chris Hurd, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, said: “When you find a new mineral , means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rocks, were different from what has been found.
