Moreover, in 2009, scientists discovered an unknown mineral in Siberia that hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, that is, when the solar system was just being formed.
This rare but strange piece of material was found in a box obtained from the Italian Museum of Natural History in Florence.
According to an international team of researchers led by scientists from Princeton University, he arrived on Earth along with the Khatyr meteorite, which fell in the Koryak Mountains in Eastern Siberia. When scientists analyzed the mineral, it wasn’t its age that intrigued them, but its atomic structure.
The structure of this mineral has never been found in nature before, although it was artificially created in the laboratory. They are called “quasi-crystals” because they look like a crystal on the outside, but are noticeably different from it inside.
The researchers studied a small fragment of
the mineral. The atoms of matter were arranged in a wide variety of
configurations that, based on human understanding of science and
chemical composition, are simply not possible in nature....<<<Read More>>>...