This stone, named Hypatia, would be a vestige of the explosion of a white dwarf .Thank you for reading NEWSLETTER " the Astro Journal ". This post is public so feel free to share it. Hypatia could well be a piece of star that fell into the great sea of sand in Egypt. Discovered in 1996, this 30 gram fragment of very hard black rock containing tiny diamonds poses a problem as to its origin.
A star fragment in the Egyptian desert
A star fragment in the Egyptian desert
A star fragment in the Egyptian desert
This stone, named Hypatia, would be a vestige of the explosion of a white dwarf .Thank you for reading NEWSLETTER " the Astro Journal ". This post is public so feel free to share it. Hypatia could well be a piece of star that fell into the great sea of sand in Egypt. Discovered in 1996, this 30 gram fragment of very hard black rock containing tiny diamonds poses a problem as to its origin.