It is the oldest known example of magma from space, and is about 4.565 million years old. That is We are looking at a piece of material from space older than the planet Earth itself..
As if that were not enough, very little is done, in May 2020, in Adrar, Algeria.
Remains of a protoplanet
As revealed a new study published in PNAS, this chunk of space magma, called Erg Chech 002 (EC 002), likely originated in our early solar system from the crust of a protoplanet, a large rocky body in the process of becoming a planet.
EC 002 is an achondrite, a type of meteorite that comes from a parent body with a distinct crust and core, and its chemical composition reveals that it emerged from a deposit of partially melted magma in the crust of the parent body.
To date no object with similar spectral characteristics has been identified, just as they claim The researchers who carried out the study:
This meteorite is the oldest magmatic rock analyzed to date and sheds light on the formation of the primordial crusts that covered the oldest protoplanets.
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This meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2020 is older than our own planet
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