Researchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in Somalia

Canadian scientists hail ‘phenomenal’ finds from iron-based meteorite elaliite and elkinstantonite

A team of researchers in Canada say they have discovered two new minerals – and potentially a third – after analysing a slice of a 15-tonne meteorite that landed in east Africa.

The meteorite, the ninth largest recorded at over 2 metres wide, was unearthed in Somalia in 2020, although local camel herders say it was well known to them for generations and named Nightfall in their songs and poems.

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