Fukang Meteorite
It is a slice of the Fukang Meteorite. The rare meteorite was discovered in 2000, in the Gobi Desert in China's Xinjiang Province.
It is a pallasite; a type of iron meteorite, quite rare, made out of large olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix. Olivine is a magnesium iron silicate, quite common in our planet’s subsurface, but which weathers fast when exposed to the surface...
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It is a slice of the Fukang Meteorite. The rare meteorite was discovered in 2000, in the Gobi Desert in China's Xinjiang Province.
It is a pallasite; a type of iron meteorite, quite rare, made out of large olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix. Olivine is a magnesium iron silicate, quite common in our planet’s subsurface, but which weathers fast when exposed to the surface...
More = http://yesiknowthat.com/
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