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‘Astonishingly rare’ fireball meteorite found in UK driveway – CNET

The pristine meteorite left a scientist “speechless with excitement.”

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It’s the first time in 30 years that a meteorite has been recovered in the UK. 
The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Scientists have sent daring missions out into the wilds of space to grab some asteroid bits. (Here’s looking at you, Hayabusa2 and Osiris-Rex.) After an eye-popping fireball meteor blasted across the UK on Feb. 28, scientists have recovered some of the valuable fragments it scattered on the ground.
“For the first time in 30 years, a meteorite has been recovered in the…

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