While working on a meteorite first found in 1951, a team of researchers has now found a unique form of an iron-carbide mineral never before observed in nature. The Wedderburn meteorite was discovered in a small town with the same name in Australia. Researchers have been working on it for decades to figure out the mysteries behind it. Now, a group led by mineralogist Chi Ma has decoded another one with the new mineral. The newly discovered mineral is named in honor of Edward (Ed) R. D. Scott, a pioneering cosmochemist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, for his significant participation in research on meteorites.
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