Peculiar crystals found in particles of the Chelyabinsk meteorite shattered by a UFO

There are a huge number of small objects in our solar system. They are very small in mass and usually fast in speed, and their orbits can easily become unstable due to the influence of other objects, so there are often some small objects crashing into the Earth.

In most cases, these small objects that hit the Earth are burned away by high temperatures as they pass through the atmosphere at high speeds, but if some small objects are massive enough and have a dense enough structure, they can break through the Earth's atmospheric "defenses" and when their debris falls on the Earth's surface, they form a variety of meteorites.

The mysterious "Chelyabinsk meteorite"

On February 15, 2013, a large meteorite fall occurred in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in which an asteroid with a mass of about 12,000 tons and a diameter of about 18 meters entered the Earth's atmosphere from the direction of Pegasus, after which the asteroid soon transformed into a dazzling "big fireball "and crashed into the Earth's surface at high speed.

Fortunately, the "big fireball" did not hit the ground directly, it exploded at a distance of about 23.3 kilometers from the ground, but the shock wave from the explosion also caused damage to more than 7200 buildings and about 1500 people were injured.

The meteorite fall soon attracted attention, and soon afterward, a careful person zoomed in and slowed down the video of the fall, and discovered that the "Chelyabinsk meteorite" was suspected to have been smashed by a UFO (unidentified flying object).

The researchers pointed out that according to the actual measurement data, the "Chelyabinsk meteorite" is about to hit the ground at a speed of about 30 kilometers per second, and this UFO from behind to catch up with the meteorite, and then smashed it, it shows that its speed is much faster than the meteorite, in terms of human technology, to break a high-speed meteorite in this way. Falling meteorites, should not be able to do.

So there are people who put forward all kinds of speculation, some people think that this should be from the advanced civilization of the UFO in the secret protection of mankind, some people think that this video may be a post-production special effects, there are people think that this so-called UFO, should be filmed on the vehicle windshield of a piece of stain, we have a variety of opinions, do not agree, the meteorite fall event is also therefore covered with a layer of mystery. The meteorite fall is therefore shrouded in mystery.

Strange crystals found in particles of the Chelyabinsk meteorite suspected to have been shattered by a UFO

After the fall, a large number of meteorite fragments were scattered in the area west of Chelyabinsk, and for the rest of the time, people have been working to find and study them.

A team of researchers led by Russian physicist Sergei Taskmaster recently published a paper claiming to have found two strange crystals in the particles of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

According to the paper, the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteorite produced a large number of meteorite particles, and the target of their study was a sample preserved in the snow layer shortly after the explosion, and when the researchers looked at the particle samples through an optical microscope, they found a peculiar "hexagonal rod " shaped crystal structure (shown in the picture below).

After this, the researchers looked at the collected meteorite particles using a more powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) and subsequently discovered another peculiar crystal structure.

This crystal structure is an overall "quasi-sphere" with a closed structure. In a further study, the researchers used X-rays to probe the interior of the crystals, which showed that the crystals were composed of multiple graphite layers with a core of nano clusters at their center.

The researchers suggest that the nano clusters could be either "Buck minster more restful," whose molecular structure is a cage-like sphere of 60 carbon atoms, or poly(hexacyclooctadecane) (molecular formula C18H12).

The researchers say that these peculiar crystal structures may have been created under specific conditions (such as high temperature, high pressure, and special catalysts) during the explosion of the meteorite, but the exact mechanism of their formation is still a mystery, and the next step of their exploration is planned to investigate whether these peculiar crystal structures are unique to the "Chelyabinsk meteorite "The next step in their quest is to investigate whether these strange crystal structures are unique to the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

Imagine that these strange crystal structures are unique to the Chelyabinsk meteorite, is it related to the UFO that is suspected to have shattered the meteorite as mentioned above? All in all, it is worthwhile to look forward to the subsequent research.

Reference: Sergei Taskmaster ET AL.

Sergei Taskmaster ET AL. Exotic carbon micro crystals in meteorite dust of the Chelyabinsk Superbowl: experimental investigations and theoretical The European Physical Journal Plus volume 137, Article number: 562 (2022)

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