The “main mass” of the world famous Fukang Meteorite is to go under the hammer with an expected sale price of US$1 million - an entrepreneurial opportunity of the highest order.

Meteorites are quite rare since most materials in space never come anywhere near the Earth, and of those that do come toward ...

Meteorites, those bits of ... Photos of Meteorites for Sale. ... This meteorite, found in China's Gobi Desert, is a pallasite, a class of stony-iron meteorites that contain the mineral olivine.

No mission to Mars has ever brought back rocks, but pieces of the Red Planet have turned up on Earth. In late May, a Mars rock, small enough to fit easily into in an adult’s palm and covered in ...

It was subsequently cut in half, with one portion going into the commercial meteorite market—“if you go to a gem and mineral show and you see a pallasite, there’s a good chance it’ll be Fukang,” says ...

Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are believed to form between the silicate mantle, or outer shell, and molten metal core of a differentiated asteroid (asteroids that ...