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Driveway where Winchcombe meteorite crashed will go on display
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A chunk of black rock dating back to the earliest days of the solar system has fallen onto a residential driveway in the UK.
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Late last month, a rock weighing around 10.6 ounces (300 grams) pinged onto a driveway belonging to Rob and Cathryn Wilcock, who live in the small town of Winchcombe, UK.
“When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there. But because it was dark I couldn’t see anything,” Hannah, the daughter of the couple, told the BBC. “It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive a bit like a kind of splatter. And in all honesty, my original thought was has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people’s gardens?”
Recovery of Rare Meteorite a Dream Come True for UK Scientists
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Winchcombe meteorite: ‘A kind of splatter on our driveway’ © Anonymous Splat: The meteorite landed on the Wilcock family s driveway 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 of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.