Meteor “Mud Ball” brings the world firmly after 2 million years; to understand

An article recently published in the magazine Meteorite and Planetary Science He reports the fall of one of the most important meteoriters on earth: the Costa Rica city, where the object fell in 2019, is important.

This means some basic components of some life basic components of amino acids, sugars and possible nucleobases, such as organic molecules, It was almost primitive and unchanged because it was 4.5 billion years ago.. This primitive composition was preserved because it was still “fresh” shortly after the meteorite fall.

Like most meteorites, it is estimated that they take round shapes instead of flat shapes, after loosening, it is estimated that it takes two million years to reach the small target of the world by avoiding breakage.

Meteorite “mud” was not harmed to the world?

Research on the meteorite of Aguas Zarcas, which was officially defined as the “mud ball ol, led to a re -evaluation of such an object. First of all, it is assumed that the high content of the juicy minerals will struct the spatial rocks structurally and be exposed to damage. But, “Apparently, [a presença de minerais ricos em água] In a press release, Jenniskens says.

In April 2019, the “mud ball” (scientifically classified as a carbon condition) entered the atmosphere of Costa Rica from an angle of 81 degrees to 14.5 km/h. The steep orbit allowed it to take as short as possible during the world atmosphere. So, most of the original meteoroid survived the entrance.

25 km above the surface produced a flash detected by Goes air satellites. In addition, “Aguas Zarcas’s decline presented an incredible fusion shell stones. [superfície derretida] “Arizona announced to a meteor scientist Laurence Garvie at the State University of Arizona.” Some stones have a beautiful blue volcano, dedi he said.

What is the importance of Aguas Zarcas meteoritis

Scientists compared Waters Zarcas’s discovery with the fall of Murchison, one of the biggest meteorite discoveries in the world. 27 kilos of rock rescued in Costa Rica Since the meteorite fell in Australia, they produced more than 100 kilos of materials, so they made the mud ball the second largest object of the species discovered so far.

“We know about other Murchison -like meteoriters who are separated in the same incident at the same time and probably in the same incident, but most of them have broken more recently.”

Despite the most modest collection, Aguas Zarcas had a great value for the meteorite science. To interpret Neil Armstrong, when the moon was landed in 1969, Co -Outhor Gerardo Soto from the University of Costa said: “The recovery of water meteorites was a small step for the man, but it was a gigantic step for meteorites.”

The second largest meteorite already found is the story of the “champion” Murchison, which falls in Australia two months after the man came to the moon after reading the story of the “mud ball”.