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Meteorite hunters: how we found the first bit of UK space rock in over 30 years

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par Áine O'Brien, PhD Candidate, Planetary Science and Astrobiology, University of Glasgow
Annemarie Pickersgill, Research associate in meteorite impacts, University of Glasgow

Wednesday 3 March started just like every other day in 2021. We were working from home. But by mid-afternoon, our colleague Luke had told us to pack our bags and fill our petrol tanks, just in case we got the OK to go on a meteorite hunt.

Four days earlier, a fireball had been spotted flying through the skies in the south of England. The flash had been captured on local people’s doorbell video cameras. It was particularly bright – a sign that meteorites might be waiting to be found.

A piece of rock flying through space is called a meteoroid. When it enters Earth’s atmosphere,…

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