Rare meteorite piece recovered by UK scientists

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A lump of a rare meteorite that lit up the night sky over the UK and northern Europe last week has been recovered from a driveway in Gloucestershire.

The fragment, weighing nearly 300 grams, and other pieces of the space rock were located after scientists reconstructed the flight path of the fireball that unleashed a sonic boom as it tore across the sky shortly before 10pm UK time on Sunday 28 February.

The black chunk of rock, a carbonaceous chondrite never seen before in the UK, thumped on to a driveway in the Cotswolds town of Winchcombe, scientists at the Natural History Museum in London said, adding that further fragments were retrieved nearby.

Dr Ashley King, a scientist at the museum, said it was “a dream come true” to be one of the first people to see and study a meteorite that had been recovered almost immediately after coming down.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/09/rare-meteorite-chunk-traced-by-scientists-to-gloucestershire-driveway

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Some of you would send Demi Lovato now, to examine it.

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If I lick it will I have superpowers 

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1 hour ago, PxA limited said:

Some of you would send Demi Lovato now, to examine it.

 

but they want to keep the sample, i guess ...

[Magic Mike 2,771]

so BEAUTIFUL!

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So I saw this in the sky last week - it was so beautiful!!

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2 hours ago, PxA limited said:

Some of you would send Demi Lovato now, to examine it.