The Fukang Pallasite meteorite was found in the mountains near Fukang, China in the year 2000. Pallasites are a type of stony-iron meteorite with olivine.The first time pallasites were seen was in 1772. The German Naturalist Peter Simon Pallas was shown a huge lump of strange looking metal which had been found in Siberia, near Krasnoyarsk. It was soon discovered that the metal lump was a meteorite. These types of meteorites are now called Pallasites.