Only known to exist in Brazil and the Central African Republic, “carbonado” black diamonds date from ... curator of the meteorite collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural ...

Scientists analyzed a sample from the “Black Beauty” meteorite, also known as NWA 7034, that was found in the Sahara Desert in 2011. The meteorite was ejected from the Martian surface after ...

Others maintain that carbon atoms (or, in a minority opinion, grains of meteoritic black graphite) within the hurtling meteorite itself ... diamond ever found was a carbonado from Brazil; named ...