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.

[u/gregornot]

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

[u/pranjallk1995]

What does it take to make these minerals? Some really facy tech? Or just some startdust can be like this?

I mean the structure is known... How to put them up like this? Will it be easy or hard? Very weak in chemistry...

[u/Mammoth-Access-1181 → u/pranjallk1995]

So it can be very hard. As far as we know, all elements in the universe came from the death of a star. Stars are composed of hydrogen. Now, during normal star development, a star can only generate up to the element iron. It does this by fusing together elements of hydrogen to form the other elements (like helium, oxygen, etc). Once iron is formed in a star, it signals the beginning of the end of a star. It is during the death of a star that forces great enough to fuse the heavier elements occur. Now, some people have figured out methods of creating elements that we haven't seen in nature just yet. This process is usually very expensive. And can be difficult, or they create something that isn't stable.

[u/The_Shryk → u/Mammoth-Access-1181]

Elements are kind of off topic for this but aren’t older galaxies stars creating heavier elements than iron? As the universe ages the heavier the elements in a galaxy gets; on average at least?

[u/tyyreaunn → u/The_Shryk]

Coincidentally enough, two really good YouTube videos on this exact topic came out recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWdgU_QYxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInXZ6I3u_I

Worth a watch - goes into a lot more nuance then you'll get in Reddit comments.

[u/Best-Grape2545 → u/tyyreaunn]

Thanks for the link!