New mineral on moon, names it Changesite-(Y)

China discovered new mineral on moon names it Changesite.

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Name Changesite-(Y) after chinese moon goddess and Chang’e-5 mission.

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Changesite is the sixth discovered lunar mineral, previously all minerals discovered by America and Russia.

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This mineral sample collected from site of volcanic activity and it's weight about 1.73 kg on Earth.

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This is a phosphate mineral in the form of columnar crystals, by seperating them and study under x-ray diffraction

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Researchers found that single crystal particle among 140,000 lunar sample particle have 10 microns of diameter.

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This sample also contain Helium-3, which is present on lunar surface in abundance form.

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