Russian gold prospectors find meteorite containing
a new mineral that had never before been seen on Earth.
The mineral came from the Uakit meteorite, named for the
Russian location where it was found. The new mineral is
named uakitite and announced at the 81st Annual
Meeting of The Meteoritical
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This might be old news to those of you on facebook, but for those of us who are
not,
here is some news out of the MetSoc Meeting:
Gold hunters in southern Russia might have been disappointed to learn that
the speckled, yellow rock they uncovered was not a sizeable pebble of valuable
metal.
List,
"Oldest-ever igneous
meteorite contains
clues to planet building
blocks:"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180806095218.htm
"NWA 9 is the oldest-ever
igneous meteorite recorded at
4.565 billion years... "The age of
this meteorite is the oldest,
igneous meteorite
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Allende
Contributed by: Al Mitterling
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=08/06/2018
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