Research team suggests rock found in Russia an extraterrestrial quasicrystal
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 08:32
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes in science, the journey is just as interesting as the findings, and that certainly appears to be the case with a disparate group of scientists and their involvement with a simple rock found in a remote part of Russia. That simple rock, which has been identified as a quasicrystal, is, according to team who has been doing research on it, as they report in PNAS, most likely part of a meteorite that came from a time not long after the birth of our solar system.