Alien minerals, so from Mexico?
Krponite or unobatanium
What about Kryptonite? No Kryptonite?
-PJ
What’s an “unknown mineral”?
I understand an “unknown element” - which would be front page news. Of course, since the article has absolutely no science behind it save for the mention of an “unknown mineral”, the article is not worth a second thought until we get someone with a STEM background to look further. Perhaps we could get noted scientists such as the CNN/MSNBC staff to analyze it. After all, they know everything about climate and COVID. Their analysis could be reviewed by Al Gore for believable verification.
It would have been nice if they gave the chemical formula or composition.
CLICKBAIT!
No mention of the elements involved...except iron nickel cores in other meteors. Article confuses elements with minerals. No mention of the crystal structure, melting point, etc of the mineral.
Unknown? Well yeah, since geologists haven’t sampled every rock found in every geological structure on earth. Has anything specifically to do with alien geology? Conjectural.
Went to original site. Got lots of ads for visiting Greece.
Verdict: CLICKBAIT and “filler” news.
Wake me when they find something really interesting, like an eyeball ... or a used condom.
"...The El Ali meteorite is composed of more than three hundred unfamiliar IAB elements and iron...."
Idiot drops that sentence into the mix without bothering to explain what IAB elements are, giving some (with a basic knowledge of physical science but no specialization in meteoritics) to believe that the Periodic Table suddenly more than doubled in size. But it's just 300+ extra ingredients among the sub-class of meteorites arbitrarily designated as "IAB," nothing to do new new "elements" in the atomic sense.
What makes a mineral "new" (which he also fails to explain) is a composition and/or crystalline structure never before observed in naturally-occurring materials. The only real news in the entire article but he fails to detail what these new compositions or crystalline structures are.
Does the article mention the properties or elements in the new minerals?
5.56mm
Uh…show me where this new stuff is on the Periodic Table.
FTA: two alien minerals unknown to Earth
1) Dilithium
2) Naquadria
Are they making more spaces on the periodic table?
Well, are they made from alien elements not on our periodic table? Or are they just new compositions of elements we know about already?
“Elaliite is a mineral with formula Fe 9PO 12 that was first synthesized in a laboratory in the 1980s”.
Slicing the ore sample with a dirty knife?