The hunt for the Christmas meteorite
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:46 am
The online BBC News magazine have a very nice article on the fall of the Barwell Meteorite, The hunt for the Christmas meteorite.
The biggest meteorite to hit the UK landed in a small village in Leicestershire one Christmas Eve. Fifty years on, the search for its highly valuable fragments is far from over.
The last thing Percy England expected on Christmas Eve was for a 4.5bn-year-old meteorite to put a hole through his brand new Vauxhall Viva...