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    ‘Incredibly rare’ meteorite is found on Cotswolds driveway

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    The meteorites are the first to be found in the UK since 1991 and the first carbonaceous chondrite meteorites in Britain ever.

    The first pieces of meteorite to be found in the UK for three decades have been discovered in the Cotswolds.

    Scientists have described the find as “incredibly exciting” and confirmed that the rocks found scattered around the town of Winchcombe are pieces of a very rare type of meteorite, the first of its kind to ever be found in the UK.

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    Experts studied videos that were captured of the fireball and estimated if meteorites had fallen to earth their likely landing zone was an area north of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.

    Residents were urged to check their gardens and neighbourhoods. Scientists received a call from a family who had heard a thud in the night on their driveway, and gone out to discover a pile of black, powdery rock.

    Dr Ashley King, a fellow at the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, was among those who travelled to recover it so it could be carefully analysed and confirmed as a meteorite.

    “I’m absolutely stunned to be honest and it really hasn’t sunk in at all,” Dr King told Sky News.

    “I always hoped that we would get maybe one meteorite fall in my lifetime that I’d have the opportunity to go and look for.

    “This is the first meteorite that’s been recovered in the UK for 30 years, so this is an incredibly rare event. And actually the type of meteorite that we’ve managed to get our hands on is a really rare type of meteorite as well so it’s doubly exciting for us.

    “It’s what we call a carbonaceous chondrite type of meteorite. These are really interesting because they are pretty much the most pristine materials that we have available from space. They take us all the way back to 4.6 billion years ago in our solar system – they’re the materials that were there as our solar system was forming.”

    Of the approximately 65,000 known meteorites on earth, only 1,206 have been witnessed to fall and of these only 51 are carbonaceous chondrites. This is the first known carbonaceous chondrite to have been found in the UK.

    As more calls and photos of possible meteorite sightings were received from around Winchcombe, teams of scientists went to the area to search themselves.

    Lachlan Bond is staying at his parents’ farm, and hadn’t heard about the possibility that meteorites may have fallen there.

    “We actually found out by the scientists knocking on the door asking if they could look on our land,” he says.

    Within an hour, the experts had found a small, shiny black rock.

    “I went down, saw the little crater that it had created and I even got to hold it.

    “It’s something that’s very special and if it gives us a little glimpse into history then that’ll be a wonderful thing to be able to say that it happened on our land.”

    Meteorites are incredibly old – their age of about 4.56 billion years is much older than any rock from the Earth.

    Almost all these “space rocks” have been blasted off asteroids, and travel for many thousands of years through space before being captured – usually by the sun, but occasionally by earth. They travel through the atmosphere, sometimes – like the one that fell in Gloucestershire – producing a bright fireball before crashing to the ground.

    The last time a meteorite was discovered in the UK was in 1991, when a rock fell into a garden at Glatton near Peterborough, while the home owner Arthur Pettifor was gardening.

    Thirty years on people in Winchcombe are being told not to stop the search yet. In fact, scientists believe it’s likely there are more pieces of meteorite still out there to be found.

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