A stone in Egypt hides the most ancient mystery you can hold in your hands.
Their hypothesis about Hypatia’s origin is that it is believed to have come from a massive red giant star that collapsed into a
This supernova became a huge bubble of dust-and-gas-atoms that would, after millions of years, have become solid sometime in the early stages of the formation of our solar system in the Oort cloud or in the Kuiper belt. “If this hypothesis is correct, the Hypatia stone would be the first tangible evidence on Earth of a supernova type Ia explosion. Perhaps equally important, it shows that an individual anomalous ‘parcel’ of dust from outer space could actually be incorporated in the solar nebula that our solar system was formed from, without being fully mixed in,” said Kramers.“This goes against the conventional view that dust which our solar system was formed from, was thoroughly mixed.
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