The Hypatia stone is one of the weirdest rocks on the planet. It’s not just out of this world, it might be out of this solar system!
At 0:54 Reid says “Meteorical Society,” but it should be “Meteoritical Society.”
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http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/01/the-hypatia-stones-composition-leaves-researchers-questioning-where-and-how-it-formed
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