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An iron lump 6.5 kg was found on a farm in Miyaguchi town Nagara city Gifu prefecture at around 2012.
This iron lump was analyzed in Oct. 2017 and concluded as an Iron meteorite belonging to the IAB group.
A man who looked at this meteorite exhibition reported that he had a similar iron lump recovered near the first recovered position.
The new iron lump was also analyzed as meteorite and nomenclature as Nagara meteorite No.2
No.2 mass is 9.7 kg and recovered at around 2008.
Another piece of meteorites might be found around.
Nagara meteorite No.1 ___Photographed in Gifu City Science Museum
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| Whole shape | Fusion crust. A few rust are found. |
What reason make surface unevenness? |
Cutting section for analysis. No Woodman - Stetten structure are found. |
Nagara meteorite No.2 ___Photographed in Osaka Science Museum
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| Whole shape | Unevenness surface also No.2 |
Few cruck in cross section |
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