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Iron Meteorites - Online Essay

Iron Meteorites

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 meteorites have have large iron contents.
However, about a quarter of the celestial rock has been cut out because a Japanese politician, Takeake Enomoto, Foreign Affairs Minister at the time, made the meteorite into three swords. A long one and two shorter ones.
He presented these swords to the crown prince, later to become Emperor Taisho. The gifts of the Foreign Affairs Minister are still in the Taisho family ...

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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 traveled millions upon millions of light years could possibly unravell many of the questions that puzzle physical scientists to this very ...

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Added: 3/19/2004 01:09:35 PM
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