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The largest piece went splat in the driveway of Rob and Cathryn Wilcock in the small, historic town of Winchcombe. The Wilcocks were not the only ones who found pieces of the rock that fell that ...
An analysis of the space rock, which crashed onto a driveway in the Winchcombe area of Gloucestershire, has revealed it contains 11% water and 2% carbon. The experts said their findings ...
The Winchcombe meteorite "streaked from space into the atmosphere as a spectacular green fireball" in 2021, said The Times. After search teams managed to recover a substantial amount of the space ...
Workmen have lifted the tarmac where a meteorite fell on the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe in February. It was the first space rock in 30 years to be seen to come down over the UK and then be ...
In fact, the Winchcombe meteorite's composition is so pristine it can nearly match samples collected by space probes such as NASA's OSIRIS-REx from asteroids in space, researchers said in a new study.
The first part of the Winchcombe meteorite landed on a driveway in February 2021 A meteorite that landed in a sheep field was repeatedly smashed apart and reassembled on the journey through space ...
The Winchcombe meteorite, which crashed onto a driveway in England in 2021 and is pristine enough to rival asteroid samples taken directly from space, contains amino acids that potentially led to ...
Winchcombe's brand new venue Isbourne Arts opens following a 16-month campaign of fundraising. Archaeologists have uncovered a stone structure and fragments of pottery during a dig. Denis Gibbs ...
Latest analysis of the space rock named after Winchcombe – the town where it ... than previously thought” due to an “unexpectedly high” proportion of carbonate minerals.