{"id":20736,"date":"2019-09-04T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20736"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:30:36","slug":"scientists-discover-new-mineral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/scientists-discover-new-mineral\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new mineral in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A team of scientific researchers has announced the discovery of a new mineral, just near the ditch of a small road in Australia. The road leads up to a former gold rush town called Wedderburn.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historically, in 1951, scientists detailed the discovery fo the Wedderburn meteorite, a small rock formation, just about the size of a fist. Ever since 1951, scientists have been trying to identify the meteorite and its composite parts, with little to no success.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just this week, a breakthrough in the analysis of this meteorite was announced. According to the scientific team behind the analysis, the meteorite is composed of a newly discovered mineral, which was not known to human science prior to this instance.<\/span><b> The mineral was given the name <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/j\/ammin.2019.104.issue-9\/am-2019-7102\/am-2019-7102.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Edscottite<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New minerals and space exploration<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Space exploration has been a major goal for decades, and ever since the first successful landing on the Moon, more missions and research tasks have been created.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the increased interest in space, there are so many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/8-radio-bursts-space-baffle-scientists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inexplicable events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and findings that scientists are yet to make sense of.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>The discovery of the new mineral Edscottite is a step forward in scientific research and brings humanity one step closer to uncovering the secrets of space.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cScientists have discovered a new mineral, one never before seen in nature, lodged inside a meteorite found near Wedderburn in central Victoria. <\/p>\n<p>Edscottite! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j8tt9xqRDn\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/j8tt9xqRDn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manjusrii\/status\/1167914141517893633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<b>According to scientists, the strange red rock was once part of the core of another planet in space.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Since the analysis of the new mineral was performed by numerous scientific teams, only about thirty percent (30%) of the original remain in tact. <\/span><b>The rest of the rock was cut up and sent out to different laboratories for detailed analysis.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientific researchers has announced the discovery of a new mineral, just near the ditch of a small road in Australia. The road leads up to a former gold rush town called Wedderburn.\u00a0 Historically, in 1951, scientists detailed the discovery fo the Wedderburn meteorite, a small rock formation, just about the size of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}