Only shite sells these days.

I own a coprolite sample and an pallasite sample, both bought for under 100USD.

The coprolite reminds me that shit happens, and has been happening for millions of years.

The fragment of pallasite reminds me that shit happens, and has been happening for billions of years.

Anyway they rock!

(yes yes... I'll get my coat)

PS If you're a young-earth creationsit theist - then fuck you you dumb shit, have a nice day. :)

Scotland is actually littered with these sorts of things.

People are dumb.

Scotland is littered with shite? Hmmm. Step ootside Jimmy?

It's a real bugger because the council never fines the people leaving them behind.

Mine's the GoreTex one with the geologist's hammer in the pocket.

>Scotland is actually littered with these sorts of things.

Just Scotland? I wonder what the Scots have done to deserve this bombardment of half tonne rocks.

Maybe this one landing in Fukang is unusual in that respect then?

"Fukang meteorite" was this the exclamation the person made when it landed at their feet?

...but the postage fee would be a bitch (420kg!)

I'd rather go home empty handed from an auction than pay for crap, fossilised or not.

I guess whoever bought the dino-crap probably drinks the £50 a cup cat-crap coffee too.

Yes, buy it now : 8p

Postage: £2,000,000.

Much like anything sold in hong kong.

Including a bit of the rock in the story: http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-new-pallasite-FUKANG-meteorite-from-China_W0QQitemZ180237763091QQihZ008QQcategoryZ3239QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

"This piece is worth more than $250.00" Oh yeah, the price currently is $80, someone certainly has an overinflated sense of worth.

I'll give em a tenner for it, would make a conversation piece from the coffee table for sure

composed of approximately 50 per cent olivine and peridot crystals and '50 cent' nickel-iron

That's a bit harsh. Just because it didn't sell there's no need to get all hufty about it!

Right on!

I was hoping for some attempted canny rebuttal from our creationist friends, but perhaps they've located the second brain cell and moved on, or perhaps our lovely moderator has condemned them to the depths of the recycle bin.

Mr Greg Fleming Sir, if that's the case why not go find and sell the fukang things at $2m a pop? Surely knowing about them and not doing so is rather dumb as well!

was obviously because it wasn't really from space and found at the bottom of a deep ocean trench. See Dan Brown and "Deception Point". It's all true because he says it is at the start of his book.

$960 for a piece of really old shit... thats not bad eh... surely someone could have coughed up $2m for the stone

>composed of approximately 50 per cent olivine and peridot crystals and '50 cent' nickel-iron

Could have been worse- '50 Cent Nickleback'- rap/rock fusion...

still a hell of a lot less than the british tax payers paying for a somewhat less solid rock

eitherway you must be fukang insane to part with that kind of cash!

hexa

Well, really. We all know they were left by Welsh sheep.

a 'Fukang meteorite' for Fukang's sake! Ha ha

The power of crap