On a Sunday evening in late February 2021, a fluorescent green fireball flashed across the skies of Gloucestershire, heading in the direction of the village of Winchcombe. “We are in a new golden age of amateur astronomy,” Steve Brown, an amateur astronomer from North Yorkshire, tells The Independent. In modern times though, anyone can take up the hobby and it …
Despite its popularity on Earth and presence throughout the galaxy, there’s still a lot of mystery about diamonds. Now scientists have found new insights about the origin of diamonds in stony meteorites known as ‘ureilites’. Dr Cyrena Goodrich of Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and Prof. Fabrizio Nestola of University of Padova, Italy, led this …
Scientists have offered new insights into the origin of diamonds in a group of stony meteorites called ureilites. These diamonds most likely formed by rapid shock transformation from graphite during one or more major impacts into the ureilite parent asteroid in the early solar system. Importantly, the ureilites that we investigated have all been highly shocked, based on the evidence …
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