Mineral Group · 1 mineral

Extraterrestrial Materials

Minerals

1

Hardness

5 Mohs

Crystal System

Cubic

What Defines the Space Group

Materials with origins beyond Earth. Iron meteorites are fragments of ancient protoplanetary cores, 4.5 billion years old. Tektites and moldavite are terrestrial rock melted by meteorite impacts and ejected into the atmosphere. Libyan desert glass may have formed from a cosmic airburst over the Sahara.

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