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The Queen ponders the ‘rock-strewn’ Martian surface during a virtual conversation to mark British Science Week – Telegraph.co.uk

She was also told about a meteorite that landed on British soil last Sunday, the first to be found in the UK for 30 years

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The Queen, who took part in the discussion from Windsor Castle, was also told about a meteorite that landed on British soil last Sunday, the first to be found in the UK for 30 years. 
A family found a 300g fragment of the meteorite, which survived its fiery passage through the Earths atmosphere and landed on their driveway in the small Cotswold town of Winchcombe.
Prof Smith, professor of earth sciences and principal curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, told the monarch it was a…

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