[meteorite-list] Fukang

[Gary Fujihara]

Yes Yinan is correct, 'I f*cking love science' Facebook page posted this on Oct 13: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=680977771923237&set=a.456449604376056.98921.367116489976035&type=1&theater

"The Fukang meteorite is a 1,003 kilogram meteorite discovered near Fukang, a city located in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. It is a pallasite, a type of stony–iron meteorite, with olivine crystals throughout. Only about 1% of all meteorites are pallasites, and this one is believed to originate from deep inside intact meteors created during the formation of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago

Photograph via kikootwo on Reddit

More info and photos: http://bit.ly/GVjC3s"

Where the link takes one to the MetBull entry for Fukang. I believe this is what spurred the high activity on the MetBull.

gary


On Oct 16, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a posting on Fukang on the Facebook group "I F*cking love science" which has millions of followers.
> 
> - Yinan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 16, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anybody on the list know why the MetBull Database is having a huge run on people looking up Fukang? It actually brought down the website on Saturday morning, with 10s of thousands of hits all at once from thousands of different users.  That onslaught is over, but it is still being accessed 50x more than would be normal every day.
>> 
>> You don't need to react to this email by looking it up because there is nothing new posted.  It's the same old pallasite, last updated in 2009.
>> 
>> Jeff
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