Diyodar Meteorite.

February 15, 2023

Scientists from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, are claiming that the meteorite that crashed in two villages in Banaskantha, Gujarat on August 17, 2022, has been identified as an aubrite.
This is only the second recorded crash of an aubrite. The meteorite has been named the Diyodar meteorite after the taluka in which the villages are located.
- The last crash of an aubrite before this was in Basti, Uttar Pradesh on December 2, 1852.
Aubrites, a type of meteorite, are coarse-grained igneous rocks formed in oxygen-poor conditions; containing a variety of exotic minerals that are not found on Earth.
- g. mineral heideite was first described in Basti meteorite.
Around 90% of Diyodar meteorite was composed of orthopyroxene.
Pyroxenes are silicates consisting of single chains of silica tetrahedra (SiO 4). Orthopyroxenes are pyroxenes with a certain structure.
- Pyroxenes such as diopside and jadeite have been used as gems.