Earth’s most common mineral finally gets a name
Bridgmanite, long sought, now found — in an 1879 meteorite
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Part of this sample of a meteorite that crashed into Australia 135 years ago contains bridgmanite. This newly named material also is the most common mineral on Earth.
O. Tschauner et al/Science 2014