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Elaliite and Elkinstantonite
December 12 , 2022
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- Researchers in Canada have discovered two new minerals in a meteorite that landed in Somalia.
- The minerals have been named "elaliite," after the town where the meteorite crashed, and "elkinstantonite," after planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton.
- Similar minerals had been synthetically created in a lab in the 1980s but never recorded as appearing in nature.
- The 15-tonne meteorite is the ninth largest recorded at over 2 metres wide, was unearthed in Somalia in 2020.
- The meteorite came from an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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