Rare Meteorite Found in Kansas

On this week's special episode of Smallville... But seriously, finding a rare pallasite meteorite is very cool because of the crystals found in the iron-nickel chunk. Most meteorites are stony, rather uninteresting, and we can't really learn anything from them. But with a pallasite, which is thought to be a chunk of an asteroid from the core-mantle boundary, we can get an idea of what was in the center of an asteroid. Asteroid cores let us know what the make-up of the very early solar system was, which can give us a better understanding of the processes involved in in planetary creation. Just as long as those crystals in the pallasite don't turn some young kid into the freak of the weak for Clark Kent to save Smallville from, we'll be okay.