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A meteorite mineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites or meteorite-derived material. [citation needed] This is a list of those minerals, excluding minerals also commonly found in terrestrial rocks. As of 1997 there were approximately 295 mineral species which have been identified in meteorites. [1]
Elaliite was named after the El Ali district in Somalia where the meteorite was found. [2] The mineral was identified by Andrew Locock who is employed by the university as the head of its electron microprobe laboratory, [3] and classified by geologist Chris Herd. [4] Locock also identified the first natural specimen of elkinstantonite in the ...
Hexamolybdenum was found as nano-crystals in an ultrarefractory inclusion in the Allende meteorite. [4] The Allende meteorite has shown to be full of new minerals, after nearly forty years it has produced one in ten of the now known minerals in meteorites. [4]
The new mineral was found along with hexamolybdenum. [2] These minerals, are believed to demonstrate conditions during the early stages of the Solar System, as is the case with many CV3 carbonaceous chondrites such as the Allende meteorite. [2] It is named after the Allende meteorite that fell in 1969 near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico ...
The meteorite was acquired by the Geological Survey of Canada, [8] and a large sample of it is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum. The largest known E-type chondrite in the asteroid belt may be 21 Lutetia , with a diameter of approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi), [ 9 ] based on observations from the Rosetta spacecraft, ESO's New Technology ...
The El Ali meteorite (Arabic) or Ceel Cali (Somali) (known traditionally by the locals as Shiid-Birood and recently by the finders as Nightfall), literally meaning, "Ali's Well," is a 15,150-kilogram (16.70-short-ton) meteorite that was known to the local population in Somalia for generations, but officially recognized as a meteorite only in 2020.
Analyzing the chemical composition of the meteorite’s 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain — a mineral that is typically only a few millimeters in size and formed in rocks that have been altered ...
The mineral's chemical formula is (Ti 4+,Sc,Al,Mg,Zr,Ca) 1.8 O 3. The elements found in it are titanium, scandium, aluminium, magnesium, zirconium, calcium, and oxygen. Samples from the meteorite include some which are zirconium rich. The mineral was found in conjunction with the already identified mineral davisite, within an olivine aggregate. [6]