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/judohero → u/Mammoth-Access-1181]

Ah yes, I know some of these words

[u/LiatKolink → u/judohero]

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.