Rare Meteorite Found in U.K. Driveway Could Hold Secrets of the Early Solar System


March 11, 2021

On February 28, a massive meteor shot over the United Kingdom. Thousands of people saw the fireball or captured its six-second burn on doorbell and dashboard cameras.

Now, the Natural History Museum in London has announced that the meteorite crash-landed in a driveway in Winchcombe, England. It’s the first meteorite to land intact in the U.K. for 31 years, and it’s a rare type of meteorite from somewhere between Mars and Jupiter that formed about 4.5 billion years ago. The meteorite is now housed at the Natural History Museum, where scientists can use it to study the early solar system.

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