![]() ![]() The rocks could be as small as a fingernail but no bigger than a fist and would be heavy for their size. The meteorite fragments are thought to be shiny, almost iridescent, and dark in colour. However, after three weeks of searching, and despite some 'really promising' submissions, no fragment of the meteorite has yet officially been found. ![]() Scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll) believe that fragments of the meteorite landed somewhere south of the market town of Shrewsbury.Īine O'Brien, from the UK Fireball Alliance, told BBC News that the rock was likely older than Earth and could unlock more knowledge of the solar system. The hunt is still on for a meteorite that is thought to have landed in Shropshire last month, after a fireball was spotted in the skies on 13 April. 'All we could see was bright green to start with, we think because the brightness of the meteor was too much for the camera, then all of a sudden we saw the streak of the meteor as clearly as anything. 'Kevin had no idea what it was and we didn't know what the dashcam footage would show until we got home. ![]() Mrs Stubberfield, 48, said: 'I was asleep so only caught the end of it but Kevin woke me up because he was so surprised. Kevin and Johanna Stubberfield were taken by surprise when the sky was lit up for a few seconds by the fireball as they neared their home in Enborne, Berkshire. He said: 'It was extremely impressive and glad I caught it on my dashcam.' Ross Watkins caught the spectacle on his car dashcam in Herefordshire, travelling West towards Bromyard. 'And in all honesty, my original thought was - has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?' It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive - a bit like a kind of splatter. 'But because it was dark, I couldn't see anything. Hannah said she had been inside her parent's home when she heard a thud, she told the BBC: 'When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there. The meteorite is some of the most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK and has had metal detectorists scouring fields in Gloucestershire. Weighing around 300g in total the meteorite pierced through the sky and crashed onto their driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Hannah Wilcock, 25, and her parents were astounded to learn the 'lumps of coal' they heard hit their drive on the night of February 28 were fragments of a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite. A family who had a meteorite land outside their Cotswolds home said they thought someone had emptied a barbeque onto their drive. ![]()
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