
The total weight of the meteorite is not known, but the Monnig Gallery contains two. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera. The Fukang meteorite was found in Xinjiang Uygur, China in 2003. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual. Box 844, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USA, or at meteoritemarket. If you have any questions you may contact us by phone at 1-90 or by mail at P.O. Muonionalusta - The Muonionalusta is believed to have impacted the Earth a million. It was found in mountains near Fukang China in 2000. As mentioned above pallasites are one group of stony-iron meteorites that contains yellow-green olivine crystals encased in shiny metal.

We hope you will indulge the rough edges here and there. The Fukang meteorite is a stony-iron meteorite known as pallasite.

When it comes to the web, we are self-taught. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. The Meteorite Market is brought to you by the Twelker family of Port Townsend, Washington. Recovered in Chinas Gobi Desert, this extraordinary meteorite contains some of the largest and.
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Rubin at the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles for his assistance in preparing this catalogue.ĥ0 x 53 x 43mm (2 x 2 x 1.66 in.) and 150.0g (0.Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. This slice is one of the largest cut from the Fukang main mass. Fukang contains many transparent olivine crystals, whose surface has a high degree of refraction of. Modern cutting and polishing.Ĭhristie's would like to thank Dr. Fukang Star Stone the most beautiful meteorite on Earth. The meteorite’s exterior surface is seen on the reverse in this select end wedge of the most beautiful extraterrestrial substance known. In a presentation that enhances Fukang’s allure, this specimen is cut and polished to a mirror finish on three faces. This is an honor Pallas is fortunate to have received, for he believed the unusual specimen he examined could not possibly have come from outer space - but to be fair, he lived at a time when most scientists did not believe rocks could fall out of the sky (see lot 19). This awe-inspiring main mass weighs over 925 pounds (over 420 kilograms).

World renown as the most spectacular example of natural cosmic splendor, the Fukang pallasite will undoubtedly become one of the greatest meteorite discoveries of the 21st century. The term pallasite is in honor of the German scientist, Peter Pallas, who while traveling through Siberia, examined the first pallasitic mass in the early 1770s. The Fukang Pallasite is a specimen that clearly out shines all meteorites of its class. Like many meteorites, the Fukang Meteorite takes its name from the location where it landed. Very few specimens are thought to have survived their descent through Earth’s atmosphere. These were created during the formation of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. Crystals of olivine and peridot (gem-quality olivine) from the mantle are suspended in an iron-nickel matrix that had been part of the asteroid’s molten core. The Fukang pallasite is believed to originate from deep inside intact meteors. 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 was found in China and landed on Earth when our planet was only a hundred million years.

Recovered in China’s Gobi Desert, Fukang contains some of the largest and most translucent crystals of any pallasite, which represent the mantle-core boundary of an asteroid that broke apart after a catastrophic collision with a second asteroid. The Fukang meteorite is 4.5 billion years old and weighs one ton. Lot 10 | THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXTRATERRESTRIAL SUBSTANCE KNOWN - END PIECE OF THE FUKANG METEORITE Pallasites are not only rare, representing less than 0.2% of all known meteorites, they are also widely considered the most dazzling otherworldly substance known - and samples of Fukang are among the most coveted.
