Where Do Iron Meteorites Come From?
In the classic 1959 adventure film, Journey to the Center of the Earth, based on Jules Vernes wonderful book Voyage au Centre de la Trre, a team of explorers lead by a very proper and resourceful James Mason encounter giant reptiles, vast underground caverns, oceans and the remains of lost civilizations in a subterranean world hidden far beneath our planets crust. If we actually could make such a journey to the Earths center, our real-life adventure would be a rather short one, as the core of our planet is a sphere of molten iron with a temperature in excess of 4,000C. The world imagined by Verne makes for a more exciting film, but without molten planetary cores we would not have iron meteorites.
