The discovery of the El Ali meteorite in Somalia has just taken place. The El Ali meteorite has finally been detected over Somalia for the first time. Yes, before this meteorite was never detected on Earth.
Scientists have just made a new discovery. They have detected a meteorite with unusual contents that have never been detected before on this planet.
The meteorite called El Ali was found to contain a new mineral element that scientists had never found before. What is that?
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New minerals in the discovery of the El Ali meteorite in Somalia
Discovering new things is truly an amazing thing. Earth, which is the planet where humans live, still has many unsolved mysteries.
Recently, researchers have found something surprising in one of the meteorites named El Ali. Scientists managed to detect the presence of a new mineral element in the meteorite.
This discovery should lead scientists to discover how asteroids actually form in the universe.
New minerals inside rock slices
Actually, scientists have also been researching this meteorite for a long time. However, the new mineral was found to be in the flakes or slices.
In the fragments of the El Ali meteorite weighing 70 grams, scientists discovered the existence of these two unprecedented minerals.
After their discovery, scientists gave the two minerals ellalite and elkinstantonite, after the El Ali meteorite.
In addition, the name of the El Ali meteorite discovery in Somalia also contains elements from the name of Arizona State University Interplanetary CEO Lindy Elkins-Tanton.
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Be an interesting discovery
According to Chris Hers, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, every time a new mineral is found, it reflects the true geological condition of the rock chemistry.
As meteorite slices are studied, the details of this new mineral are of great interest to scientists. Who wouldn’t be interested in two minerals that still have no official explanation and are new to science.
The researchers also plan to carry out further investigations of the meteorite to understand how conditions formed and where the parent asteroids formed.
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The El Ali meteorite fell to Earth in 2020 with a total weight of 16 tons. While researchers are still looking for material science applications of the minerals within, these rocks have been relocated to China.
The sale aims to find potential buyers. This certainly makes future scientists’ insights from the discovery of the El Ali meteorite in Somalia under threat due to limited access for further investigation. (R10/HR-Online)
