A few months ago a meteorite was seen falling over the town of Winchcombe in the United Kingdom. Multiple videos of the meteor burning in the atmosphere were recorded thanks to the cameras of the UK Fireball Network and this led to finding actual fragments of the space rock. And it turns out, as the immediate observations suggested, that this was a very special find.
The Winchcombe meteorite has now been officially classified as a member of the CM ( Mighei-like ) group of carbonaceous chondrites meteorites with the approval of the Meteoritical Society. There are only 15 other known CM falls and just over 400 recorded finds. There are over 65,000 meteorites on record.
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