Iron Meteorites

Part I of Essay
In 1890, a lone prospector discovered a lump of iron weighing 22.7 kg in a Japanese mountain range, a rock which is now on display at the National Science Museum in Tokyo. Several years after discovery, scientists learned it was an iron meteorite, so called because many me ....

Part II of Essay
.... could only be carried out when the metal had gotten so hot it turned white. Although somewhat irrelevant to the short story about the Shooting Star Swords, meterites do play an important part in science to day, and help scientist decode the birth of earth, our sun, and even the galaxy in which we are in. Today whenever a meteorite is found it is closely strdied by teams of scientist, to see if it could decode some of the many questions we have about our galaxy, and even the many galaxies found around ours. A single meteorite that has travele ....