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Yesterday’s top story: Panguite: Earth’s newest and one of solar system’s oldest minerals

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By Dorothy Kosich

Geology geeks and Trekkies throughout Planet Earth can rejoice-panguite, the world’s newest and perhaps one of its oldest minerals-announced Tuesday by the International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, can trace its origins to before the birth of our solar system.

Four decades after a fireball exploded, scattering thousands of pieces of the Allende Meteorite across Mexico’s State of Chihuahua, scientists from California’s Institute of Technology, engaged in an ongoing nanomineralogy investigation of primitive meteorites, discovered panguite embedded in the space rock