Winchcombe meteorite to go on display at the Museum

A piece of the Winchcombe meteorite, from the first meteorite fall, to have been recovered in the UK for 30 years, is to be put on display at the Museum.

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Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. But when meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere they are called meteors. But if a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called a meteorite.

The piece of meteorite, which is a 103 gram fragment of black rock resembling coal, was found in a field by one Mira Ihasz and a team from the University of Glasgow.

The meteorite landed in the driveway of a house located in Gloucestershire in February and considered “astonishingly rare”.