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Winchcombe Meteorite

May 18 , 2021 1046 days 792 0
  • The National History Museum located in London is to display a piece of the meteorite that touched down the town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire in the UK.
  • The meteorite touched the UK soil in February 2021.
  • The meteorite is 4.5 billion years old.
  • This meteorite is rare as it is a carbonaceous meteorite.
  • Out of the 65,000 meteorite types known to mankind, only thousand are of this type.
  • The Winchcombe meteorite is similar to that retrieved by the Hayabusa 2 mission.

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