Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
ƒ/8
65 mm
1/200
32000

My Erg Chech 002 slice, with backlit olivine crystal.

Meteorite hunter Michael Farmer: “Most amazing crystal I’ve ever seen in a meteorite bar none.”

The long green crystals must have formed in a planetary-sized body with very slow cooling over 100,000+ years.

This meteorite is an ancient survivor from a lost cousin planet that formed 23 million years before Earth itself!

2 responses to “Kryptonite, clearly”

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    jurvetson

    and with polarized lightAnd a long post on my large EC 002 individual Our Long Lost Cousin Planet — Looking Inside EC 002

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    jurvetson

    Cool to see my EC 002 meteorite used in this week’s research news from Nature Communications:

    • EC 002 is the oldest planetary rock ever found in our solar system, with the most precise age ever calculated for an extraterrestrial rock: 4.56556 billion years old.

    • New isotope analysis draws into question how meteorites have been dated, because 26Al is unevenly distributed (with 3.5x heterogeneity), contrary to prior assumption. Other meteorites may not be as old as calculated previously. And it changes our understanding of the early solar nebula.

    + Lay summary by the Brits: DailyMail

    My stone is also the one in Wikipedia

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