[meteorite-list] Oddball 'Crystal' Survived Crash to Earth Inside Meteorite

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:47:43 -0400
Message-ID: <CALpO9Hd+m6sfksrhuoVxrVNvyn51KCDQPHjo2r8J53juE3whWA_at_mail.gmail.com>

The news article is misinterpreting statements and adding their own
opinion. At no point in the original press release or the original
Nature article (http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150313/srep09111/full/srep09111.html)
did they suggest that there were questions about it surviving a fall
to Earth.

Also, there is no mention of shocked quartz, only stishovite. I don't
know if stishovite should be interpreted as shocked quartz...

- Yinan

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Can't see their logic that they are unlikely to survive because the
> meteorites "heat up inside"....we all know that they don't?
>
> Graham
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>> Hello Listers
>>
>> Let hope some fossils will survive from Mars :)
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Shawn Alan
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>> Oddball 'Crystal' Survived Crash to Earth Inside Meteorite
>> by Elizabeth Howell, Live Science Contributor | March 18, 2015
>> 07:53am ET
>>
>> A bizarre crystal-like mineral recently found in a meteorite that
>> crashed to Earth perhaps 15,000 years ago adds more support for the idea
>> that the fragile structure can survive in nature. But how it formed at
>> the beginnings of the solar system is still a mystery.
>>
>> The newfound mineral is called a "quasicrystal" because it resembles a
>> crystal, but the atoms are not arranged as regularly as they are in real
>> crystals. The quasicrystal hitched a ride to Earth on a meteorite that
>> zipped from space through Earth's atmosphere and crashed to the ground.
>> That process is generally a violent one that heats up the insides of
>> rocks, making the delicate quasicrystal's survival a surprise.
>>
>> "The difference between crystals and quasicrystals can be visualized by
>> imagining a tiled floor," said according to a statement by Princeton
>> University in a press release. "Tiles that are six-sided hexagons can
>> fit neatly against each other to cover the entire floor. But five-sided
>> pentagons or 10-sided decagons laid next to each will result in gaps
>> between tiles."
>>
>> Source:
>> http://www.livescience.com/50167-quasicrystal-survived-meteorite-crash.html
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