The National Museum, linked to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), incorporated the Santa Filomena meteorite into its collection this Thursday (13). This is the first item to be incorporated since the fire that hit the institution in September 2018.
The piece weighs about 2.8 kg, and was acquired by the Associação Amigos do Museu Nacional (SAMN), after the occurrence of a meteorite shower in 2020, in the city of Santa Filomena, in Pernambuco.
Elizabeth Zucolotto, a researcher at the National Museum, said the meteorite was chosen to be part of the collection because of unique features, including a fresh melting crust and surface depressions.
Researcher Amanda Tosi, on the other hand, stated that the meteorite can be qualified as a “fossil” of the solar system, since the fragment has primitive properties, making it possible to assess that it dates from approximately 4.56 billion years.
“We can point out that, since then, there have been no significant physical and chemical changes in its minerals, being almost the same as it was formed billions of years ago. They are remnants of what our early Solar System was like and give us clues to how planetary bodies, asteroids and comets formed.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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