The minerals have been named after the town of El Ali, where the meteorite crashed in Somalia, and “elkinstantonite,” after planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton.
The significance of this discovery involves the particular conditions in which the minerals formed.
"That’s what makes this exciting," he added. "In this particular meteorite, you have two officially described minerals that are new to science." The discovery of new minerals does not happen very often, according to Herd. He noted that finding new minerals in meteorites, in particular, is even more rare.
"It really was a complete surprise for me," Herd said. "It's not something that we set out to do when we started looking at this particular meteorite. We just happened across what turned out to be two new minerals."
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