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This rare mineral is older than the Earth

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Krotite was discovered in 2011 in a fragment of a meteorite in Africa .

It formed at extremely high temperatures in the violent infernos of dying stars or the swirling disk of material that birthed our Sun .

The conditions required to generate krotite are similar to those in the early days of the Solar System , 4.6 billion years ago .