In this city of endless museums and galleries, here are some sequestered collections filled with rarities.

The second-largest meteorite found in the U.S. is the Bacubirito meteorite, discovered in Mexico in 1863, weighing approximately 22 tons. The Canyon Diablo meteorite, associated with Arizona’s famous ...

Located 35 miles east of Flagstaff and 6 miles south of Interstate 40, Meteor Crater and its fragments were first recognized after the discovery of iron fragments west of the crater near Canyon ...

Diablo Canyon, California’s sole remaining nuclear power plant, has been left for dead on more than a few occasions over the last decade or so, and is currently slated to begin a lengthy ...

Diablo Canyon, California’s sole remaining nuclear power plant, has been left for dead on more than a few occasions over the last decade or so, and is currently slated to begin a lengthy ...

However, there’s another allotrope—first identified in 1967 when scientists examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona—known today as lonsdaleite. Named for the Irish crystallographer ...

It was first identified in 1967 from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, in Arizona, USA, regarded as one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on Earth. It was named after crystallographer Professor Dame ...

Lonsdaleite, the first ultra-hard diamond, was discovered in 1967 in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona, and its applications are largely unexplored due to the low purity and small size of ...

Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first discovered in 1967 in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and boasts a hexagonal lattice structure. The lab-grown diamond in question is of ...

For instance, lonsdaleite was first discovered in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona in 1967. The synthesis of this material in labs has also remained unverified beyond a few studies.