Earth’s most abundant mineral finally has a name
Bridgmanite, long sought, now found in 1879 meteorite
![A meteorite sample](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ts_Fig_S1_bridgmanite_original.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
MINERAL MONIKER Part of this sample of a meteorite that crashed into Australia 135 years ago contains the newly christened mineral bridgmanite. The mineral makes up 38 percent of Earth’s volume.
O. Tschauner et al/Science 2014