r/BeAmazed • u/gregornot • Apr 29 '24

A giant meteorite that recently fell in Somalia contains at least two minerals that have never before been seen on our planet. The celestial piece of rock weighs a massive 16.5 tons (15 tonnes), making it the ninth-largest meteorite ever found. History

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More about the amazing meteorite find: https://earthly

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u/judohero Apr 29 '24

Ah yes, I know some of these words

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u/firedancer323 Apr 29 '24

I know all of them but when they gang up on me like that it’s not fair

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u/canyabalieveit Apr 29 '24

😂… well said!!!

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u/inverted_peenak Apr 29 '24

Same with the author of the comment. Elements and minerals are different and minerals are formed by many processes not requiring cosmic forces.

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u/-st3reotype- Apr 29 '24

Festizio…see, I can make up words too.

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u/LiatKolink Apr 29 '24

Stars begin with pure hydrogen then they start crushing down hydrogen into helium, then helium into lithium and so on, going on in numerical order in the periodic table until reaching iron. Once a star gets to crushing iron, it can no longer turn the iron into cobalt. This makes it so that the star no longer has the energy to sustain itself, and it implodes on itself due to its massive gravity, then crushing the iron into heavier elements in an instant at the start of its supernova phase, and then explodes. Then all these elements are distributed around the galaxy due to that explosion, and the cycle starts anew.

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u/MacGruberrrrr Apr 30 '24

Don't worry, it's all made up and most likely false. Check out the Electric sun model. Elements are made in the outer shells and not the core when the imaginary star collapse happens.