A fresh published subject field   sounds like the beginning of a great sci - fi floor : A Edward Durell Stone reclaim in 1996 in Southern Egypt is puzzling scientists because , although unquestionably from outer space , it does n’t appear like any even meteorite or asteroid , and the late analysis shows that the micro - mineral within are unlike anything we have ever encountered here or in the creation .

Regular meteorites are made mostly of silicon with a bit of carbon paper ( similar to the composition of our planet ) but the Hypatia stone , as it is called , is the opposite , as reported in the journalGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta .

The stone has a vast amount of C compound and almost all of them have transformed into micro - diamonds . Some of the carbon paper compound are of particular interest because they are known as polyaromatic hydrocarbons ( PAH ) , a major component of interstellar detritus . And there is even more strange stuff , like double-dyed atomic number 13 .

" The aluminum occurs in complete metallic form , on its own , not in a chemic compound with other chemical element , " first source Georgy Belyanin , from the University of Johannesburg , say in astatement . " As a comparison , gold occurs in nuggets , but aluminum never does . This occurrence is highly rare on Earth and the rest of our solar system , as far as is get laid in science . "

The Lucy Stone also boast a mineral call moissanite , a silicon carbide compound , in an unexpected form and atomic number 28 - atomic number 15 grain with very little Fe , another combining never observe on Earth before . All these broker intimate that the object ’s formation predates the origin of the Solar System . The stone just does n’t conform to with what we know of our local ( place ) rocks .

" What we do cognise is that Hypatia was make in a cold environment , plausibly at temperatures below that of fluent nitrogen on Earth ( -196 Celsius ) , " Professor Jan Kramers , the lead researcher on the labor , explained . " In our solar scheme , it would have been right smart further out than the asteroid belt ammunition between Mars and Jupiter , where most meteorites come from . "

" Comets come mainly from the Kuiper Belt , beyond the orbit of Neptune and about 40 time as far away from the sun as we are , " he continued . " Some come from the Oort Cloud , even further out . We know very piddling about the chemical musical composition of quad objects out there . So our next head will dig further into where Hypatia came from . "

We take care forward to that . In the lag ,   if you ’re singular , here ’s a fun fact : the rock was named after Hypatia of Alexandria , the not bad philosopher , mathematician , and astronomer of the 4th hundred . She was murdered and dismembered by a family of Christian monk probably due to Cyril of Alexandria’sjealousy . He was later made a angel by the Catholic Church .