Edscottite Found in Meteorite

Edscottite Found in Meteorite

Extraterrestrial Mineral Never Before Seen on Earth Found Inside a Famous Meteorite
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/new-extraterrestrial-mineral-edscottite-meteorite.html

Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature. Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/mineral-never-seen-in-nature-found-buried-in-heart-of-mysterious-meteorite

This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral By Liam Mannix, The Age
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-meteorite-came-from-the-core-of-another-planet-inside-it-a-new-mineral-20190830-p52mhg.html

The paper is:

Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich
Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ammin.2019.104.issue-9/am-2019-7102/am-2019-7102.xml

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/104/9/1351/573345/edscottite-fe5c2-a-new-iron-carbide-mineral-from

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteorite Hunting in China

Meteorite Hunting in China

China's meteorite hunters: Adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Man travels world to search for fragments, Nanlin Fang, CNN Sep 07, 2019
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/lifestyle/chinas-meteorite-hunters-adventurers-hoping-to-get-rich-from-rocks/1118315685

China's meteorite hunters: The adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Meet Zhang Bo, who travels to far-flung locations armed with a metal detector, hoping he'll stumble on a fallen meteorite. CNN, Sept. 7, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-meteorite-hunters-intl-hnk-scn/index.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteorite shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

Meteorite shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet, Phil Plait, SYFY WIRE
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-meteorite-older-than-earth-shows-evidence-of-ancient-volcanism-on-a-long-gone-protoplanet

Oldest-ever igneous meteorite contains clues to planet building blocks. University of Arizona, August 2, 2018
https://asunow.asu.edu/20180802-oldest-ever-igneous-meteorite-contains-clues-planet-building-blocks

Taylor, G.J., 2018. The Oldest Volcanic Meteorite: A Silica-Rich Lava on a Geologically Complex Planetesimal. Planetary Science Research Discoveries Report, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Aug18/PSRD-oldest-volcanic-meteorite.pdf

Some papers are:

Hoffmann, V.H., Wimmer, K., Hochleitner, R. and Kaliwoda, M., 2018, March. Northwest Africa (NWA) 11119---Probing an Unknown Early Planetary Body?. In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Vol. 49).
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/2468.pdf

Srinivasan, P., Dunlap, D.R., Agee, C.B., Wadhwa, M., Coleff, D., Ziegler, K., Zeigler, R. and McCubbin, F.M., 2018. Silica-rich volcanism in the early solar system dated at 4.565 Ga. Nature communications, 9(1), p.30-36. Open Access
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05501-0

Yours,

Paul H.