A Beautiful Fukang Meteorite

Started by Solar, March 20, 2015, 04:45:14 PM

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The Beautiful Fukang Meteorite

The Fukang meteorite, believed to be some 4.5 billion years old, which is as ancient as Earth itself, was unearthed near a town of the same name in China, in 2000. It is a pallasite, a type of meteorite with translucent golden crystals of a mineral called olivine embedded in a silvery honeycomb of nickel-iron. It's a gorgeous meteorite, and possibly the most stunning extraterrestrial piece of rock man has ever seen.

The Fukang meteorite was found by a hiker. The man had often stopped and had lunch on this giant rock, and he always wondered what the metal and crystals were. He finally took a hammer and chisel and broke some pieces off, which he sent to the USA to confirm that it was a meteorite.

The original meteorite weighted just over a thousand kilogram, but the rock was so brilliant that everybody wanted a piece of it. Since then it has been divided into dozens of thin slices and auctioned or distributed around the world.


http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/05/the-beautiful-fukang-meteorite.html
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That is beautiful.  One of my favorite museum trips is to the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles.  While everyone is looking at the dinosaurs, I want to hang out in the gem room. 

They show stones in their natural state and then polished up or cut stones in jewelry.   :biggrin:

This is the same mineral (or whatever it's called) in a green color.

http://geology.com/gemstones/gems-from-space/
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Wow I was surprised he could lift that by himself.
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