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The man who owns 1,000 meteorites

Postby David Entwistle » Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:29 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48994941

On Christmas Eve 1965 a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite exploded over the Leicestershire village of Barwell.

It was one of the largest and best recorded meteorite falls in British history: witnesses reported a flash in the sky accompanied by a loud bang, followed by a thud as one of the first pieces of space rock landed on the ground. As news of what happened emerged, the media descended on the village and a frantic search for the hundreds of scattered fragments began.
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