(CNN) Between 2015 and 2019, researchers discovered 31 new carbon minerals , most of them vividly colorful. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral," Mills said. Eventually, the planet might've been struck by another astronomical body and destroyed, flinging the debris across the solar system. The debris, Bonning posited, became the Wedderburn meteorite. The edscottite might've been created when all that metal heated up in the former planet.

Source: CNN December 26, 2019 17:26 UTC