[meteorite-list] 1000 year-old 10kg Buddhist statue carved from 15, 000 year-old Chinga meteorite

[Robin Whittle]

"A 1,000 year-old ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a
Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analysed by scientists and has been
found to be carved from a meteorite. The findings, published in
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, reveal the priceless statue to be a
rare ataxite class of meteorite."

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-buddhist-statue-nazi-meteorite-reveals.html

  - Robin