[Rockhounds] "Ice fossils" found in Acfer 094 from the Hoggar Mountains in the Algerian Sahara.

[Paul]

‘Ice fossils’ from the desert. Algerian meteorite
offers new insights into early asteroid formation.
Cosmos, Richard A. Lovett, Novmeber 22, 2019
https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/ice-fossils-from-the-desert

Fossil ice found in meteorite is the first direct evidence of ice in 
asteroids
By Josh Davis, The Natural History Museum, London, November 21, 2019
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/november/fossil-ice-found-in-meteorite.html
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/fossil-ice-found-in-meteor-is-the-first-direct-evidence-of-ice-i.html

The paper is:

Discovery of fossil asteroidal ice in primitive meteorite Acfer 094
By Megumi Matsumoto, Akira Tsuchiyama, Aiko Nakato, Junya
Matsuno, Akira Miyake, Akimasa Kataoka, Motoo Ito, Naotaka
Tomioka, Yu Kodama, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Tsukasa
Nakano, Epifanio Vaccaro, Science Advances, 20 Nov 2019 : eaax5078
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax5078
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax5078/tab-pdf

Yours,

Paul H.