[Rockhounds] Two minerals never before been seen on Earth found inside 17-ton meteorite

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

There is a little more info from the school where the research was done.
https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 4:39 AM <rik.dillen at skynet.be> wrote:

> Are those two new mineral names already 'officially' described  in a
> scientific paper, and are they already approved by the CNMNC Commission of
> the IMA?
> Just wondering, as I couldn't find any publication about them in scientific
> literature via Google.
> Grts, and thanks for sharing this interesting news fact.
>
> Rik Dillen
> rik.dillen at skynet.be
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> Subject: [Rockhounds] Two minerals never before been seen on Earth found
> inside 17-ton meteorite
>
> Two minerals that have never been seen before on Earth have been discovered
> inside a massive meteorite in Somalia. They could hold important clues to
> how asteroids form.
>
> The two brand new minerals were found inside a single 2.5 ounce (70 gram)
> slice taken from the 16.5 ton (15 metric tons) El Ali meteorite, which
> crashed to *Earth* <https://www.livescience.com/earth.html> in 2020.
> Scientists named the minerals elaliite after the *meteor*
> <
> https://www.livescience.com/difference-between-asteroids-comets-and-meteors
> .html
> <https://www.livescience.com/difference-between-asteroids-comets-and-meteors.html>
> >
> and
> elkinstantonite after *Lindy Elkins-Tanton*
> <https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/lindy-elkins-tanton/
> >(open
> s
> in new tab), the managing director of the Arizona State University
> Interplanetary Initiative and principal investigator of NASA's upcoming
> Psyche mission, which will send a probe to investigate the mineral-rich
> Psyche *asteroid* <https://www.livescience.com/asteroids> for evidence of
> how our *solar system* <https://www.livescience.com/our-solar-system.html
> >'s
> planets formed.
>
> "Whenever you find a new mineral, it means that the actual geological
> conditions, the chemistry of the rock, was different than what's been found
> before," *Chris Herd* <https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/herd
> >(opens
> in new tab), a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric
> Sciences
> at the University of Alberta, said in a *statement*
> <
> https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-me
> teorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html
> <https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html>
> >(opens
> in new tab). "That's what makes this exciting: In this particular meteorite
> you have two officially described minerals that are new to science."
>
> https://www.livescience.com/two-new-minerals-found-inside-meteorite
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