"55 new minerals"-Chi Ma

Chi Ma's name shows up on a lot of papers but it's hard to find video of him speaking, so this LPI is that much more interesting for me. This LPI involves a lot of electron microscopy, which is why his name come up a lot, he has the keys to some of the best electron microscopes. But the big takeaway is, there's going to be a lot of fascinating images in this talk.

• Benitoite at 5:50 with barioperovskite inclusions. 
• At 10:50 he presents a table of the new minerals discovered from one ancient meteor. He calls modest attention to the high amount of Titanium in the new minerals. Keep in mind, Ti is formed by supernovae, is lightweight and super reactive. The reason it is so strong and flexible is because it's so reactive that once it bonds to itself it never wants to let go, but it bonds to anything just as readily. So the Ti in the protoplanetary disk would have reacted early and often to make any odd mineral. In other-words Ti is fully expected in making primordial minerals that don't normally recur since. If you find a weird mineral with Ti in it when normally there would be none, it's very old.
• At 33:05 a tiny meteor from Mars yields nine new minerals. As popular as Mars news is, this got no press.

I kinda wanted to make a bullet point for every new mineral and every pretty thin-slice, but they came multiple per slide and he was going through them so fast that was impractical. Suffice to say he categorically listed many of the new minerals as the bulk of the lecture. Rock hounds and mineralogists should get chained nerd-gasms.