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Experts recover rare remnants of meteor in amazing breakthrough for space studies – Wales Online
Pieces of meteorite survived passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and landed around Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
A team of scientists have recovered pieces of an extremely rare meteorite that lit up the sky over the UK late last month.
Dr Natasha Stephen, lecturer in advanced analysis (Earth & Planetary Sciences) at the University of Plymouth, was part of a collaborative effort to locate and analyse fragments of the meteorite that illuminated the night skies on February 28.
Hundreds of pieces of the rare meteorite, known as a carbonaceous chondrite, survived its passage through the Earths atmosphere and landed…
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