Science
Winchcombe meteorite: ‘A kind of splatter on our driveway’ – Yahoo News Australia
The thrill of the Gloucestershire family at the centre of the major UK meteorite discovery.
“We’re still pinching ourselves – to believe that this actually happened on our drive!”
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…
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