Hello Steemians!! Today I bring my new post on "Hypatia : The Most Mysterious Stone in the Solar System". In this topic I have covered the new ideas that are being debated around the world. Please go through it to know more about it.
You know? Researchers have always been trying to figure out the origins of life, the origins of those Planets, the origins of the Solar System and everything we think! We know about that may now be called into question because of the discovery of a small pebble that contains compounds that are not only not found anywhere on this planet. It's not found anywhere in this Solar System but let me start from the beginning and the Western part of Egypt lies the great sand sea which covers a whopping twenty eight thousand square miles and spills over into Eastern Libya. In one region of those vast deserts it's littered with yellow glass whose origins many Scientists believed to be otherworldly and while investigating this glass field the small stones containing diamonds were discovered that challenged all preconceived notions about the formation of our Solar System.
In 1996 Dr. Ali A Barrack was exploring an area of the great sand sea that is abundant in desert glass known as the Libyan Desert Glass strong field. This 25,000 square mile region is covered in pieces of yellow glass that perplexes researchers. Now the glass is very similar to Trinitite. The glass formed in the New Mexico Desert underneath the first Atomic Bomb Explosion that was nick named Operation Trinity in this class was very important to the ancient Egyptians as evidenced by its use in jewelry that adorned the mummies of the Pharaohs including to the Comet. Anyway Bearcats 1996 exploration Collected a few pieces of seemingly unspectacular stones that were surrounded by this mysterious yellow class. These stones have been named after Hypatia who was a famous female astronomer and mathematician in Alexandria. Egypt during the 4th and 5th centuries A.D and upon further analysis of the noble gas and nitrogen isotopes. It was announced in 2013 that these stones were extraterrestrial in origin. This was followed by a 2015 announcement stating that the Hypatia stones were not from any known Comet or Meteor impact.
Also, what really made a scientist sit up and take notice was the revelation that the stones were almost pure carbon with very little silica. The opposite of what is observed in every other Meteor were common fragment analyzed to date for the mark that shock diamonds have unusual nitrogen isotopes ratios unlike those found on Earth leading researchers to believe that they were formed before the mysterious impactor entered our atmosphere. According to lead researcher Professor Jan Kramer's we can think of the badly mixed dough a fruitcake representing the bulk of the Hypatia pepper. What's recalled to mixed matrices in geology terms the glace cherries and nuts in the cake represents the mineral grains found in Hypatia inclusions and the flour dusting the cracks of the fallen cake represent the secondary materials were found in the fractures in Hypatia which are from Earth. This speaking analogy gets even stranger due to the presence of a few exceedingly rare components because sure metallic aluminium was found and aluminium is really never found in this form on the Earth and it's Solar System. Also a even more astounding discovery was an alloy of phosphorus and nickel that contains no iron. This has really never been observed before Professor Jan Kramer's went on to say.
Even more unusual the matrix contains a high amount of very specific carbon compounds called Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) which is a major component of interstellar dust which existed even before our Solar System was formed. Interstellar dust is also found in Comet and Meteorites that have not been heated up for a prolonged period in their history basically the South Arican Professor believes the data is telling him that the formation process must have happened very far from the warmth of a star like our Sun and these are regions of our Solar System that we currently know very little about Professor Jan Kramer's. Also noted that Hypatia was formed in a cold environments probably at temperatures below that of liquid nitrogen on Earth. In our Solar System it would have been way further out than the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter work. Most Meteorites come from Comets come mainly from the Kuiper Belts beyond the Orbit of Neptune and about 40 times as far away from the Sun.
Some come from the word cloud even further outs we know very little about the chemical compositions of Space objects out there. So our next question will dig further into where Hypatia came from. Now if this yellow glass was formed by Hypatia exploding with the force of an Atomic Bomb leaving only tiny pieces of itself as clues for further researchers in that case where is the Crater. It turns out that one potential candidates for the Crater created from the events that produced all of this Nuclear Glass was too big to be seen except from Space and it wasn't until 2007 when Egyptian Scientists analyzed data collected by orbiting satellites that day discover what they believed to be a nineteen mile diameter Crater that could very well explain the origins of the desert glass and Hypatia stone fragments. But due to its very remote location there really has been very little additional research done about it. So yeah a lot of questions containing a tiny little pebble. Also I wonder you remember the story about King Tut's dagger dolls are made with a meteorite. I wonder if that's somehow related to the Hypatia stones. Anyway guys let me know your thoughts on this story in the comments!!
References :
Youtube: Studies Prove Egyptian Hypatia Stone Predates Formation of Solar System: Link
NASA: The Hypatia Catalogue: Link
SCIENCE ALERT: This Extraterrestrial Stone Contains Compounds: Link
Youtube: Rock Found in Egypt is Unlike Anything Ever Seen in Our Solar System: Link
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