Famous meteorites yield mineral that’s brand new to science but old to solar system
Updated: 2012-06-29 20:21:06
Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Lots of Ink : Asteroid foundation named after a fable seeks big-money telescope to find real ones Famous meteorites yield mineral that’s brand new to science but old to solar system Here is some essentially arcane , minor news that nonetheless received considerable attention from reporters . The news is that analysis of fragments of the Allende Meteor , whose pieces scattered across Mexico in 1969, revealed a mineral not in the catalogs . One reason is catches the eye is its common name , Panguite , and the press release from Caltech explaining that it derives from Pan Gu , a Chinese mythological giant who , the tale goes , swung an ax and smote yin from yang to make sky . Ancient mythologies doesn’t matter whether
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