The planet shattered, dropping strange materials into Australia

The decades-long study has revealed the mother of the Wedderburn space stone: an exoplanet crashed and smashed by an alien attacker.

American scientists have just published an interesting and elaborate study, revealing in detail the strange things in Australia's famous Wedderburn meteorite : it contains a strange mineral that has never been seen before in self. However, on earth and in any other space stone, it is called "edscottite".

Part of the mysterious space stone is stored at the Victoria Museum (Australia).

Wedderburn Meteorite is named after the town of Wedderburn in southern Australia, because it has been discovered near this town since 1951. To decipher the information that a stone reveals, it's an extreme process. difficult and have spent decades by researchers around the world.

According to the mineralogist Chi Ma from the California Institute of Technology and chemist Alan Rubin from the University of California in Los Angeles, team members, the strange material edscottite is a special piece of iron carbide mineral, which is a combination of When iron is cooled, it can only be produced during metallurgy to transform iron into steel.

Where the meteorite fell to Earth - (photo: LEO DELAUNCEY - MAIL ONLINE).

Its appearance in nature is almost unbelievable, and this has partly revealed its origin: a distant alien world with many strange natural conditions. Through electron microscopy, edscottite also appears as small white crystals, existing in small, thin pieces, interspersed between other materials in the rock. According to the team, it's an unusual shape.

Previous studies also show that this mysterious space rock contains traces of iron and gold, along with more rare minerals such as kamacite, schreibersite, taenite and troilite.

More interestingly, Wedderburn's "mother" was highly likely an ancient exoplanet (planetary exoplanet), which was shattered in a collision with another mysterious space object. The planets shot everywhere and one of them landed on Earth - the Wedderburn meteorite.

The research has just been published in the scientific journal American Mineralogist.