A rare 4.5 billion year old meteorite fragment has been rediscovered in a muddy field

Suara.com – Space rock fragments (Meteor) Rarely found in mud field excavations.

Experts believe it is part of a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that is expected to land in Britain for the first time in 30 years.

Reported pages Sun, Monday (12/7/2021), the last boulder was excavated for four miles.

The yellow-green stone, which contains the building blocks of life, is larger than the original find. According to some, it resembles a human face.

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The find must have belonged to the same meteorite that burned up in Gloucestershire in February.

These pieces were later found in sheep dung on a farm in Winscombe.

Last found in the Cotswolds village of Woodmancott.

Derek Robson, a chemist from Leigh’s Lough Borough, hailed his discovery as a “very special moment.”

Previously, some rock fragments were recovered from a fireball that lit up the sky in the south of England a week earlier.

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Rocks fall in the area of ​​the town of Wincombe in Gloucestershire. A resident first alerted experts after noticing a pile of burning stones at the corner of his driveway.

This is the first such incident in the UK since a meteorite was last found in the UK 30 years ago.

Researchers are excited about this discovery because of the rarity of this type of stone.

Rock fragments are carbonaceous chondrites, rock materials that have retained chemicals that have not changed since the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

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