3 Weird Meteorites (Whose Weirdness Was Instructive)

Meteorites are extraterrestrial rocks that have ended up on earth. All of them are literally out of this world, but here are three of the strangest of these aliens. Host: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/25/1815133116, https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/nyu-wgm071719.php https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11851 https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2008tc3.html, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03808-6, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/diamonds-trapped-strange-meteorite-came-solar-systems-earliest-planets-180968821/ http://csmgeo.csm.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/RockMin/RockMin.html -------- Images: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/the-picturesque-view-in-the-sky-against-the-meteor-shower-no-clouds-time-lapse-bmzaies-dwj6ewggt9 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriented_Taza_Meteorite.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Namibie_Hoba_Meteorite_05.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brenham_pallasite,_world%27s_largest_oriented_pallasite_2.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/206473.php https://www.videoblocks.com/video/time-lapse-perseid-meteor-shower-shooting-stars-astro-milky-way-sjbun4bixjkupgao5 https://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1815133116/video-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11851/figures/1 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/two-asteroids-colliding-and-being-pulverized-on-a-space-background-42-fwsvve https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:323213main_Petersmeteorites_946-710.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/falling-blue-diamonds-noeql2l https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/macro-mineral-stone-rhinestone-rock-crystal-on-a-black-background-gm1164515032-320116567 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gem-quality-olivine-crystals-called-peridot-from-lanzarote-canary-islands-gm1136778775-302868902 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/fiery-flying-meteorite-to-earth-cosmic-phenomenon-dangerous-to-humanity-gm1139914608-304849301