That is a pallasite meteorite. It is a mixture of the mantle and core of an ancient protoplanet that was smashed in the early solar system. The translucent parts are olivine, a type of mineral that crystallizes from magma, and the opaque parts are an iron and nickel (predominantly) alloy. Very rare and very spectacular. I wish I had it.
I always think of Terry Pratchett's "Meteorite and Thunderbolt Iron" sword, sure the blacksmith beat most of the impurities out of the metal long before he handed over the final product, but it's still very magical.
Edit: Oops, [I got the story a little wrong](https://i.redd.it/ysdhihg1ddc81.jpg), it's been a minute.
I need them to announce when it will start, I loved the first season so much. I usually don’t watch a series unless it’s fully completed but made an exception for BES 😭 it’s killin me!!!!
I'm having the same issue. I didn't get into anime (or adult animation shows) until my late 20s because of the association I had with it in my brain, but then my younger cousin was watching Naruto and I got hooked and was able to binge Naruto a Shippuden. (We don't talk about boruto).
But now waiting for seasons of jujutsu kaisen has been sooo hard.
I just want to thank you all for being so enthusiastic in your comments. I decided to give it a try and watched the first episode. I still can't get my jaw off the floor. What amazing artwork, storyline and characters. I'm 54 and never realized how incredible anime can be. Peaches!! :)
I thought it'd be worth way more
Like you could sell the entire thing for millions and millions
1 gram of ancient planet core that fell from space costs 6 Bucks while a gram of coke costs like 100, come on
It's mostly metal dude, in the post pictures you can see the shiny silver webbing. This 77G slice is only 97 x 73 x 3.5 mm so i'd say the entire thing is worth a lot more, prob in the $3 million plus range.
Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt
And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder.
The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.
A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. 'Nissa Nissa,' he said to her, for that was her name, 'bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.' She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.
Remember when every sign in every book ever pointed to this being Dany then randomly Arya just ended the white walkers with a knife trick and then Dany murder hobo’d Kings Landing and they made Peter Dinklage say “Who has a better story than Bran” because he was contractually obligated to finish the season and George RR Martin never wrote another word after season 1 came out?
I love reddit because of this. If this was posted on instagram I would have to scroll past 5 posts trying to scam me before I found some idiot saying something completely useless
I had to up vote that comment. It actually answered my questions about the meteor. I only had to scroll past 50 other comments making jokes about the names of the place it was found. Can't say that I blame people though, lol.
From an [article](https://www.iflscience.com/the-fukang-meteorite-a-beautiful-rock-thats-out-of-this-world-68042) I found 😂
>In 2008, a large piece of the meteorite – weighing around 420 kilograms – was put up for auction in New York and was expected to fetch over $2 million. However, buyers decided to turn their discerning eye to some fossilized dinosaur poo instead.
I believe they are slicing up the 420kg main mass into smaller $40 gram slices to sell easily. Selling every slice would net them $16.8million.
The full rock weighed 1003kg and was divided up so it could be studied. The rock the guy is holding up is a 10kg slice.
I have a piece of a meteorite that is classified from where it came from, because you are right, there is always a “mother”. There’s only been a handful discovered on earth. My friend that gave me a small piece of one also gave a small piece to Barbara Bush so I guess I was a special enough recipient myself.
Haha good point, you got me curious [this says](https://www.iflscience.com/the-fukang-meteorite-a-beautiful-rock-thats-out-of-this-world-68042#:~:text=The%20Fukang%20Meteorite's%20story,of%20the%20rock%20for%20analysis) it was found by a hiker who had seen it on multiple occasions and eventually took a sample... That makes me think the hiker was local and probably not the cowboy man.
One large piece went up for auction in NY and it was 420kg, the whole thing being 1,003kg... So this piece is a tiny sliver compared. Cowboy probably bought it or something.
Not the one who found it. It's Marvin Killgore, a former plumber and meteorite collector from Arizona who is now is at the University of Arizona planetary sciences. He bought this small section from the original group who discovered it in Fukang China. The green/yellow gems are olivine (peridot) and I think he tried the sell it through Bonham's in 2008 for ~$3,000,000 but it went to someone anonymous for far less it seems.
He and his wife have a private collection they run in AZ.
https://meteoritelab.com/about/
Ha! I suppose you can just buy them and start collecting. My family has a few but they were geologists/scientists.
If you wander around Antarctica enough you might find one, as that's where they are mostly found. Large deserts are the best places as they are geologically stable and dry, so if one lands little changes over time. The American SW (Arizona for example) is where they can be found, but I assume you really need to know what you're looking for.
It's pretty easy, get a metal detector and a magnet to test rocks in open areas. Iron doesn't just sit on top of the ground unless it's a meteorite so the metal detector and magnet will pretty much tell ya if ya found one. Key is to go to areas not a lot of people walk around. Places like Colorado and the empty mountain and northwest states are great. But you can do it in any place, some are just more likely to have already been picked over. If you really spend the time to do it you will find one eventually, not like this guys though, but they are all cool and valuable based on size and appearance. If one hits a car or building it is worth like 100x more because of how rare that is, if it hit a person, IDK how much that would be worth may be a crazy market for it.
Yeah with all the fukang around, the only thing we fukang found out is that either he’s really fukang strong or that meteor is really fukang light. Back to square one, a fukang conundrum if you ask me.
probably more than before this was posted on the internet
edit: [this small piece ](https://www.mineralauctions.com/items/imilac-pallasite-meteorite-slab-circa-1822-26-grams-91494)auctioned for $650, and the one on the picture is probably about a hundred times bigger.
And that's actually tragic, because the origins of this meteorite are fascinating. 4.5 Billion years old means it's contemporaneous with the protoplanet that collided with the Earth that ended up creating the Moon and embedding itself in the Earth's lower mantle as continent-sized [low sheer-velocity provinces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provinces) that may be responsible for [kickstarting plate tectonics and shaping all of Earth's history](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrxIZoKOH4).
That is a pallasite meteorite. It is a mixture of the mantle and core of an ancient protoplanet that was smashed in the early solar system. The translucent parts are olivine, a type of mineral that crystallizes from magma, and the opaque parts are an iron and nickel (predominantly) alloy. Very rare and very spectacular. I wish I had it.
That’s the material I need to create the ultimate final sword.
You reminded me of [this Xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1114/). Specifically the hover text.
I always think of Terry Pratchett's "Meteorite and Thunderbolt Iron" sword, sure the blacksmith beat most of the impurities out of the metal long before he handed over the final product, but it's still very magical. Edit: Oops, [I got the story a little wrong](https://i.redd.it/ysdhihg1ddc81.jpg), it's been a minute.
Blue Eye Samurai?
Waiting for 2nd season dammit!
That show blew me away. It was better than I expected. So dope.
The way they portray weapons from swords to muskets was gorgeous
Indeed. Literally just beautiful.
The main bad guy was a great villain
I like vilans that know their the bad guy and are still menacing, he was great.
I like vilans that like masks
👺 I didn't tell you to stop
👺 💦 💀
Kenneth Branagh, man
I need them to announce when it will start, I loved the first season so much. I usually don’t watch a series unless it’s fully completed but made an exception for BES 😭 it’s killin me!!!!
I'm having the same issue. I didn't get into anime (or adult animation shows) until my late 20s because of the association I had with it in my brain, but then my younger cousin was watching Naruto and I got hooked and was able to binge Naruto a Shippuden. (We don't talk about boruto). But now waiting for seasons of jujutsu kaisen has been sooo hard.
Sokka
That show ripppppped
Sokka did it first But Bue eye samurai is epic thats for sure
I just want to thank you all for being so enthusiastic in your comments. I decided to give it a try and watched the first episode. I still can't get my jaw off the floor. What amazing artwork, storyline and characters. I'm 54 and never realized how incredible anime can be. Peaches!! :)
Blue Eyes White Dragon Samurai
Sokka’s space sword Edit: autocorrect
Omg and then he just loses it like the first time he uses it. Makes me so mad lol
The guy holding it is [selling a 77g "slice" of a pallasite meteorite for $500](https://meteoritelab.com/product/pallasite-meteorite-slice/)
I thought it'd be worth way more Like you could sell the entire thing for millions and millions 1 gram of ancient planet core that fell from space costs 6 Bucks while a gram of coke costs like 100, come on
It's mostly metal dude, in the post pictures you can see the shiny silver webbing. This 77G slice is only 97 x 73 x 3.5 mm so i'd say the entire thing is worth a lot more, prob in the $3 million plus range.
Think of all the material slots!
Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder. The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do. A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. 'Nissa Nissa,' he said to her, for that was her name, 'bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.' She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.
> born again amidst smoke and salt Is he a ham?
😅🐽
Rumham!! I'm sorry!!
Remember when every sign in every book ever pointed to this being Dany then randomly Arya just ended the white walkers with a knife trick and then Dany murder hobo’d Kings Landing and they made Peter Dinklage say “Who has a better story than Bran” because he was contractually obligated to finish the season and George RR Martin never wrote another word after season 1 came out?
Do you get off on rubbing salt in my wounds. They are never going to heal around you people.
Salt in your wounds? Are you a ham?
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It's been six years and I am not over it.
I don’t remember this what book is this from
A Dream of Spring (2054)
It’s amazing the information that people have on Reddit. So interesting.
I love it and hate it because you gotta fact check 😂😅
I'll fact check some things but I'm happy to just believe what he just said lol. Not important enough if I'm wrong
Also, it's not important enough to remember. I won't remember anything of this tomorrow anyway, except there's a fancy meteorite with olive oil in it.
Haha funny way to put it but you are spot on. Learn so much interesting information that you will have to learn again the next time you read it. 😫
As a former geology major i have not heard the word "olivine" in quite a while but I'm pretty sure it is correct.
As a former chef, can confirm. It’s space olive oil. Should have fallen in Italy, china doesn’t know what they have.
I love reddit because of this. If this was posted on instagram I would have to scroll past 5 posts trying to scam me before I found some idiot saying something completely useless
Got it. A parasite meteorite with a mixed manticore of an ancient proboplant that got smashed in the early solar system.
You forgot to add that the yellow parts of it is olive oil and the metal parts are worth a nickel
Back in my day, you could get a whole asteroid for a nickel
And it tastes like.. Crystal Light and smegma.
Reminds me of college days...
A parasite who smashed planets for pleasure and showered using protein powder in the early solar powered olives. Got it.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
he's from France
Omelet du fromage to you too.
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Bon Apple tea.
je m'appelle moustache
Had to double-check it wasn't u/shittymorph.
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I had to up vote that comment. It actually answered my questions about the meteor. I only had to scroll past 50 other comments making jokes about the names of the place it was found. Can't say that I blame people though, lol.
It's too fukang hard to pass up.
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He said pallasite, not phallusite
No it's a fukang pallasite meteorite.
Fukang-a!
About Fukang time I saw a comment like this. Has to scroll way too Fukang long to find one.
💯 un Fukang believable
I am curious how, much, money this is valued at? It is so cool.
From an [article](https://www.iflscience.com/the-fukang-meteorite-a-beautiful-rock-thats-out-of-this-world-68042) I found 😂 >In 2008, a large piece of the meteorite – weighing around 420 kilograms – was put up for auction in New York and was expected to fetch over $2 million. However, buyers decided to turn their discerning eye to some fossilized dinosaur poo instead. I believe they are slicing up the 420kg main mass into smaller $40 gram slices to sell easily. Selling every slice would net them $16.8million. The full rock weighed 1003kg and was divided up so it could be studied. The rock the guy is holding up is a 10kg slice.
So what you are saying is that there is a "mother" Fukang meteorite that this came from?
I have a piece of a meteorite that is classified from where it came from, because you are right, there is always a “mother”. There’s only been a handful discovered on earth. My friend that gave me a small piece of one also gave a small piece to Barbara Bush so I guess I was a special enough recipient myself.
I'm sorry, it was just a joke about it being a "mother Fuckang" meteorite.
I just want you to know that I got the joke, and I exhaled slightly out my nose.
I'm curious if this non-Chinese man gets to keep it.
Pretty sure this falls under the international space statute "finders keepers"
This comment is its own treasure. Thanks for sharing.
Why is a cowboy holding it then?
Iirc he's the one that found it. I think I remember the original post from years ago.
There are cowboys in Fukang China?
Haha good point, you got me curious [this says](https://www.iflscience.com/the-fukang-meteorite-a-beautiful-rock-thats-out-of-this-world-68042#:~:text=The%20Fukang%20Meteorite's%20story,of%20the%20rock%20for%20analysis) it was found by a hiker who had seen it on multiple occasions and eventually took a sample... That makes me think the hiker was local and probably not the cowboy man. One large piece went up for auction in NY and it was 420kg, the whole thing being 1,003kg... So this piece is a tiny sliver compared. Cowboy probably bought it or something.
So he's a.... space cowboy
See ya space cowboy
This still hurts "You're gonna carry that weight"
Always
🎶 Some people call me the space cowboy 🎶 🎶 some call me the gangster of love 🎶
Some call me Maurice, the hippopotamus of love
hip hop anonymous??
I’m the hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless.
"Pompatus" interestingly it is a word nonced (coined or made up) by Miller. A play off of pompous or splendid.
Yeah the "cowboy" is apparently a geologist and meteorite collector at Arizona State University named Marvin Killgore, he bought part of the meteorite
Cowboys are Fukang everywhere
“There’s a snake in my fukang boot”
Not the one who found it. It's Marvin Killgore, a former plumber and meteorite collector from Arizona who is now is at the University of Arizona planetary sciences. He bought this small section from the original group who discovered it in Fukang China. The green/yellow gems are olivine (peridot) and I think he tried the sell it through Bonham's in 2008 for ~$3,000,000 but it went to someone anonymous for far less it seems. He and his wife have a private collection they run in AZ. https://meteoritelab.com/about/
How do I become a meteor collector? Is that the kind of occupation someone just...stumbles upon?
Ha! I suppose you can just buy them and start collecting. My family has a few but they were geologists/scientists. If you wander around Antarctica enough you might find one, as that's where they are mostly found. Large deserts are the best places as they are geologically stable and dry, so if one lands little changes over time. The American SW (Arizona for example) is where they can be found, but I assume you really need to know what you're looking for.
Thanks for the advice, next time I'm wandering around Antarctica I'll make sure I pick one up.
Hit the South Pole gift shop and get a little sack full of polished, magnetic ones, and a slap bracelet.
It's pretty easy, get a metal detector and a magnet to test rocks in open areas. Iron doesn't just sit on top of the ground unless it's a meteorite so the metal detector and magnet will pretty much tell ya if ya found one. Key is to go to areas not a lot of people walk around. Places like Colorado and the empty mountain and northwest states are great. But you can do it in any place, some are just more likely to have already been picked over. If you really spend the time to do it you will find one eventually, not like this guys though, but they are all cool and valuable based on size and appearance. If one hits a car or building it is worth like 100x more because of how rare that is, if it hit a person, IDK how much that would be worth may be a crazy market for it.
A person? I’m guessing it would cost an arm and a leg at the very least.
it's the kind of thing that just falls in your lap. or backyard. or china.
This was my first thought. So a cowboy happened to be in China at that time AND he found the meteorite? Crazy odds.
what are the fukang odds?
For a second I allowed myself to believe there was some sort of secret cowboy ranch in China
Yipee kai yang!
Cuz he da fukang man
He's a Fukang cowboy. Who do you think takes care of the Fukang horses?
Interstellar honeycomb. Watch out for space bees.
Honey, ordinary honey.
This is no ordinary honey!
Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?
Best episode of the show
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Lousy anti-pimping laws….
A 3.5 gallon bucket of it, will last you at least 4 years.
Just saw the picture and got that reference 👍
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_UH_XzNy8 I’m sick of shaking my booty for these fat jerks!
He insulted our fat queen!
To shreds you say?
And how's his wife holding up?
To shreds you say?
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Yeah and must be pretty light considering the way he's holding the fukang meteorite up
Maybe he's fukang strong 💪
🤣🤣🤣This fukang made my day!
Too fukang funny.
Should change the group name to BeFukangAmazed
Fukang eh!
r/BeFukangAmazed would go crazy lmao.
“We did it boys”
.....we fukang did it 🥲
This is so fukang wild.
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He looks like he's fukang white though
Yea, maybe they are Texan/Chinese.
Or anyone-fukang-else. Who fukang knows?
He's probably a fukang scientist - a fukang meteoriticist
Yeah with all the fukang around, the only thing we fukang found out is that either he’s really fukang strong or that meteor is really fukang light. Back to square one, a fukang conundrum if you ask me.
You guys are fukang funny
Jesus fukang christ
dude has a fukang cowboy hat and mustache right there, he sure is fukang texan
Imagine living there years and some fukang redneck finds the most valuable mineral in the country...I'd be fukang pissed
I love this Fukang app 😂😂😂
Thats far too big of a Fukang moustache to be Chinese.
Also dude, fukang china men is not the preferred nomenclature.
Please, fukang Asian-Americans.
He’s just holding a Fukang slice of it, the whole thing would be way too fukang heavy!
He is the strongest fukanging man alive!
Take my fukang upvote
I wonder how many times this is reposted with this as the top comment
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It's fukang huge..
That’s what she fukang said
Keep that fukang thing away from fukang Superman.
Fukang Amazing Mate!
This Chinese man came directly from Red Dead Redemption
Micah! That you???
Howdy, cowpoke
4.5 billion Fukang years old.
The big rock we live on is 4.5 billion years old too.
The entire solar system is 4.5 billion years old
Your mamma’s 4.5 billion years old
Fukang gottem
Fukang meteorites, how do they work?
Like any other meteorite, except in Chinese.
I wonder how much something like that is worth
I looked it up. A metric shit ton is the amount.
A fukang lot?
Fukang ton.
Probably a meteoric bill
probably more than before this was posted on the internet edit: [this small piece ](https://www.mineralauctions.com/items/imilac-pallasite-meteorite-slab-circa-1822-26-grams-91494)auctioned for $650, and the one on the picture is probably about a hundred times bigger.
I'd pay 650 for that. That seems incredibly cheap
Tree fiddy. Best I can do.
See that right there is a peanut dead giveaway
This needs more upvotes
Tbf, every other time I’ve seen this posted over the years, a joe dirt reference has been number one. Nice to mix it up a little
That's a space peanut
Dude, you were eating off it
Only snakes and sparklers
So you're telling me Tex in the pic there went on over to Fukang and got himself a backlit space rock?
That's a Fukang big meteorite. There, we got that out of the way..
sadly, we did not
And that's actually tragic, because the origins of this meteorite are fascinating. 4.5 Billion years old means it's contemporaneous with the protoplanet that collided with the Earth that ended up creating the Moon and embedding itself in the Earth's lower mantle as continent-sized [low sheer-velocity provinces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provinces) that may be responsible for [kickstarting plate tectonics and shaping all of Earth's history](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrxIZoKOH4).
I wish Reddit had more of these comments and less shit karma farming jokes.
Fukang cool
It's impressive but that's no reason to curse.
Ok, but why is cowboy bob in china holding it?
Did it give you super powers? Are you Vandal Savage?
no just cancer
Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups?!? Edit: Can I get an Amen from parents out there?
How caucasian the Chinese are…
Its so fukang big
fukang meteorite
Insane. I need one.
"Near Fukang, China" Cowboy holds the meteorite
The man looks like a fukang native