A brief history of the UK's Winchcombe meteorite

There was little time for water from the Earth's atmosphere to contaminate the meteorite after it fell. Trustees of the Natural History Museum, Author provided

On 28 February 2021, for the first time in 30 years, a meteorite fell in the UK and was later recovered by scientists. Today, there’s an international effort to study this space rock and learn more about its place in the early solar system.

This meteorite is named after Winchcombe, the town in Gloucestershire where several fragments were recovered – including a piece that landed on the driveway of a family home.