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.