This 9th largest meteorite that ever struck Earth has something UNIQUE

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The universe is unimaginably vast and we, the Earthlings, have only explored a small fraction of it. According to latest estimates, there are around 100-200 billion galaxies in the universe. And we have had a close view of less than 1 percent of our own galaxy. This opens up the question of how different the universe is compared to the solar system. Are carbon, nitrogen, oxygen the building blocks in other galaxies or are there entirely different sets of elements that dominate these worlds? This is why whenever a meteorite strikes the Earth, it is a golden opportunity for scientists to examine and understand the universe a little bit more. And the 9th largest meteorite that has struck the Earth known as El Ali has just revealed two never-seen-before minerals to the scientists.

This gigantic meteorite was found in Somalia. Weighing in at 15,000 kilograms, it was known to the locals of Somalia for generations, but nobody knew that it was in fact a meteorite till 2020 when a mining company's staff inspected the area and found its strange composition. And soon after the discovery of El Ali as a meteorite, researchers from the University of Alberta began analyzing it. In 2022, it was revealed that the meteorite contains two new minerals, named “elaliite” and “elkinstantonite” within it.

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. That's what makes this exciting: In this particular meteorite you have two officially described minerals that are new to science,” Chris Herd, a professor at the University of Alberta's Meteorite Collection stated in an interview.

The first mineral “elaliite” got its name from the meteorite