https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/18734-new-alien-mineral-discovered-inside-russian-uakit-meteorite

A new mineral has been discovered in a meteorite in Eastern Russia, and scientists are sure that it is never been found on our planet before.

Named "uakitite" after the Uakit region of Siberia where the meteorite was discovered by gold hunters two years ago, the mineral was found by a group that mistook the yellow rock for a rare metal. According to researchers, 98 percent of the Uakit meteorite is an iron alloy called kamacite, which so far has only been found in other meteorites. The other two percent is comprised of minerals that form in space. When the scientists looked at the rock under a microscope, they found tiny uakitite grains 25 times smaller than a grain of rice.

"Unfortunately, we failed to obtain all physical and optical properties of uakitite because of the very small sizes of the grains," wrote lead researcher and geologist at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Victor Sharygin, in an article [PDF] presented during the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Moscow.

Some news outlets published stories that erroneously called uakitite stronger than diamond, but Sharygin says that the hardness of the mineral was not directly measured. It was instead estimated using vanadium nitride (VN), a synthetically produced mineral that closely resembles uakitite. Vanadium nitride has a hardness between 9 and 10 on the Mohs hardness scale, while diamond is at 10. So while uakitite is probably very hard, it has not stolen the crown. If it bears any resemblance to VN's "light gray colour with a pinky tint in reflected light," it's unlikely that it will be appearing in jewelry stores anywhere near you, rarity not withstanding.

The discovery of uakitite is cool, but there just isn't enough of it yet to really get excited about. Scientists will have to find new ways to obtain data from the tiny sample, or someone will have to find a lot more of it.

It's always interesting when we have a new discovery.

especially from space, imo...

I am sure there are many many minerals out there that would amaze us, same for colors. I had a conversation on this awhile ago. Our colors are based on our nature and variation off of that.

I bet there is scores and scores of new colors out there. I would love to see some in my life time.

The visible spectrum is merely a small section of the whole spectrum.
Of the visible light we can detect with our eyes, the colors are known.



NASA and other scientific entities do what is called false color.
That is when they use a visible light color to represent the parts of the spectrum we can't see.

The Sun in False-color

Thank you for the information and the Meteors often carry the secrets of the universe

Wow that is awesome, their are so many things we do not know.

If you put a mineral in between two polarized lenses with the polarizations crossing each other, put it under a microscope, take out the eyepiece, look straight down the tube, and rotate the mineral on the microscope stage you will get a conic interference figure that will give information about the crystal structure.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HV_ClV2CB9U

The Chinese are playing around with this kind of thing with the LCD in iPhones.

nice post thanks Moe

Sure looks like kryptonite, better keep it away from Lex Luther

Arfvedsonite; that’s why I chose my username

Well, there's

Erbacherite



Obite



Amstelite



Buschitite



Rumacokalite



Flunitrazepamite aka Rohypnolite



and

Bigcheeseatite

I like rocks and minerals

you'd love my head.

sure you don't mean gizzard dub????

ot well get digging moe maybe it can be a new fuel source

That's what I've said all along. Scientist have to rewrite the books every year as to what they find out, and still they... EVERY TIME... sit with their smuck smile and know it all arrogance... It has made me laugh for decades.
Just like when they sat with their same smuck smiles and put people to jail and tortured them for saying the earth isn't flat.
The more they find out, the more pussled they get.
Lol.

ummm, it wasn't the scientist that did that, it was the fanatics.

If you see scientists as smug, you have some issues dude?
(some are tho)

Science is an ongoing endeavor to explain reality.
Its always in flux.

Human beings don't know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING.
Science is about the quest to find out.

All discoveries are but a temporary understanding of reality until a better explanation is discovered.

Box of rocks, eh?

da box o' rocks might be smarter