A 'Relic of The Early Solar System' Was Just Found on a Driveway in England NICOLETTA LANESE, LIVE SCIENCE 9 MARCH 2021 A meteorite found in the UK contains an extremely rare combination of minerals that could give scientists a glimpse into how the Solar System formed and even how life emerged on Earth.
The meteorite tumbled to Earth on February 28, when a dazzling fireball zoomed over southwest England, Live Science previously reported. At the time, scientists suspected that quite a few fragments of the space rock likely reached the ground. One such fragment landed on a driveway in Winchcombe, a town in Gloucestershire, according to a statement from the Natural History Museum in London.