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Extremely rare meteorite found in wake of spectacular U.K. fireball may contain the building blocks of life By Sophie Lewis NASA attempts historic touchdown on asteroid
Late last month, a spectacular fireball lit up the night sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe. Now, locals are starting to recover leftover meteorite fragments and scientists say they may contain the building blocks of life.
An extremely rare meteorite found on an unassuming driveway of a house in Gloucestershire marks the first piece of space rock discovered in the U.K. in 30 years, the Natural History Museum of London said in a statement Tuesday. It will give researchers a peek into what the solar system looked like when it was forming, some 4.6 billion years ago.
Cotswolds meteorite could hold the key to life
Credit: Natural History Museum
When a family fast asleep in the Cotswolds were woken by an almighty thud, they could never have known that the object causing it may be the key to finding out how life formed on Earth.
The 300g rock on their driveway which made the noise, was the first meteorite to be found in the UK for 30 years. It landed after zooming through the air as a fireball.
Surveying the strange object outside their home they guessed it was rather special, and summoned scientists from the Natural History Museum to investigate.
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