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Meteorite Yields New Ancient Mineral

Panguite found inside 1969 fireball

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 27, 2012 12:58 AM CDT | Updated Jun 27, 2012 4:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – A mineral new to science but older than our planet has been found in fragments of a meteorite that smashed into northern Mexico in 1969. Panguite was found in bits of the Allende meteorite by Caltech researchers who used an electron-scanning microscope to study minerals...   Read full story »

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