Canadian researchers have helped find a rare meteorite that fell over England in February.
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Posted: Mar 11, 2021 2:19 PM ET | Last Updated: March 11
A fireball was seen over western England on Feb 28 and lasted about six seconds (Supplied by UK Fireball Alliance) comments
Canadian researchers have helped discover and study a rare meteorite that fell over England in February. The space rock contains the ingredients that make up our solar system.
Scientists recovered nearly 300 grams of the meteorite in Winchombe, England, this week.
The meteorite is a very rare type of space rock, called carbonaceous chondrite, which remained in a deep freeze for the last 4.5 billion years, untouched by any heating.
Western fireball trackers play key role in important meteorite discovery
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Astonishingly rare fireball meteorite found in UK driveway CNET 3/10/2021 Amanda Kooser © Provided by CNET It s the first time in 30 years that a meteorite has been recovered in the UK. The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Scientists have sent daring missions out into the wilds of space to grab some asteroid bits. (Here s looking at you, Hayabusa2 and Osiris-Rex.) After an eye-popping fireball meteor blasted across the UK on Feb. 28, scientists have recovered some of the valuable fragments it scattered on the ground. For the first time in 30 years, a meteorite has been recovered in the UK after landing in the driveway of a house in Gloucestershire, the Natural History Museum in London said in a statement Tuesday. The museum called the carbonaceous chondrite meteorite astonishingly rare and said it will give scientists a glimpse into the early solar system dating back to 4.6 billion years ago.