That Fukang Meteorite!

I can't believe it took me so long to hear about this 8th Wonder of the World, but in the year 2000 a wonderful discovery took place.

      The discovery of The Fukang Meteorite! 

     Found in Fukang, China by a Fukang hiker who initially mistook it for a duck, a Fukang duck, the Fukang Meteorite is a remarkable pallasite believed to be approximately 4.5 billion years old. That's a lot of Fukang years. These kind of cosmic estimations always confuse me. If everything began at the Big Bang when God told Rosie O’Donnell, “Can you move to the side, you’re blocking the light," then shouldn't everything be the same years old? 

     But I digress...

     The Fukang meteorite is not just beautiful to look at with its olivine crystals, but also offers Fukang scientists a unique Fukang window into the early days of our solar system, which apparently consisted of rocks floating around in space. 

     One Fukang scientist was quoted as saying, "Yeah, that's not just a rock. It's a Fukang rock."

     For those of you who don't know, Fukang is located not just in China, but in Fukang China and is approximately 4,527 square Fukang miles, and, as of 2007, it had a Fukang population of 1.5 million. Now that's a lot of Fukang people. Roughly the same population as New Jersey, whose population, I hear, likes to reference Fukang a lot. Also in 2007, Fukang's GDP, which stands for Gross Disgusting Profits, was 4.822 billion Fukang yuan.

     Fukang's Fukang economy relies on Fukang industry, Fukang agriculture, and Fukang tourism, with Fukang tourist who Fukang go there to Fukang see the Fukang Meteorite, in case you think I've Fukang forgotten what this Fukang column is Fukang about. 

     While I have never been to China myself, I hear it's beautiful. 

     Fukang beautiful. 

  

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