One of Earth’s missing minerals found locked inside meteorite
Proposed yet never proven component of crust and mantle found in space debris
![slice of a meteorite](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/032916_ts_intro-mineral-main_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
MISSING MINERAL Part of this slice of a meteorite that crashed into Australia more than a century ago contains a previously undiscovered form of garnet (arrow). Grains of the mineral are too small to see without a microscope.
N. Tomioka