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Hundreds of pieces of the rare meteorite, known as a carbonaceous chondrite, survived its passage through the Earth’s atmosphere
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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.
An extremely rare meteorite that fell on a driveway in the UK may contain answers to questions about the early history of the solar system and life on Earth.
March 9, 2021
The first of its kind in history. British scientists are delighted to have discovered a meteorite by Josh Atkinson
It has been a week since fireballs lit up the night sky over the south of England. The next day, meteorologists publicly announced that they were hunting for meteorite fragments, which they thought had landed somewhere near the town of Cheltenham.
Scientists likened the search for small space rocks in a not-so-clear place to looking for a needle in a haystack, but luck smiled at them. A resident of Winchcomb, a mile from Cheltenham, called them and saw a pile of burnt stones on the driveway. It became not just a meteorite, but a meteorite.