New Mineral Found In Meteorite

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @03:06PM from the please-don't-call-it-unobtianium dept.

Virtucon writes "The new mineral was found embedded in the Allende meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1969. Since 2007, geologist Chi Ma of Caltech has been probing the meteorite with a scanning electron microscope, discovering nine new materials including panguite. 'Panguite’s primordial nature means that it was actually around before the Earth and other planets formed, meaning it can help scientists learn more about the conditions in the cloud of gas and dust that gave rise to our solar system.'"

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Re:The 2 questions on our minds... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-26 15:27 · Score: -1, Troll

If Prometheus taught us anything, ingesting extraterrestrial materials leads to worms coming out of our eyes.
It gets much much worse than that my friend.

Sometimes it leads to NIGGERS!

Worms out your eyes would definitely suck but it wouldn't destroy civilization.