[Rockhounds] A fireball, a driveway and a priceless meteorite

[Glen Miller]

Thanks! Interesting bit.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 11:01 AM Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rob Wilcock, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah are astounded to find
> themselves at the centre of a major scientific discovery.
>
> It was their property in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, that was hit by the
> most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK.
>
> The meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy.
>
> It's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains
> unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion
> years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets
> came into being.
>
> The first thing the Wilcock family knew about it was when they heard a dull
> thud outside their house on the night of Sunday 28 February.
>
>    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56337876
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