Space rock may solve death of mythic emperor April 09 2002 at 09:59AM Beijing - A 5 000-year-old meteorite unearthed in north-western China may explain the legendary death of the man celebrated as the nation's earliest ancestor, the Yellow Emperor, state media said on Tuesday. The official China Daily said the meteorite, found near a mausoleum for the Yellow Emperor in the Shaanxi province county of Huangling, may lie behind the cataclysmic shattering of land that historical records say killed China's enigmatic first emperor. The discovery also sheds light on a local legend that nine dragons broke up the ancient...