Posted on 03/10/2021 12:53:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
"We're still pinching ourselves - to believe that this actually happened on our drive!"
Rob Wilcock, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah are astounded to find themselves at the centre of a major scientific discovery.
It was their property in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, that was hit by the most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK.
The meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy.
It's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.
The first thing the Wilcock family knew about it was when they heard a dull thud outside their house on the night of Sunday 28 February.
"When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there," recalled Hannah. "But because it was dark I couldn't see anything.
"It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive - a bit like a kind of splatter. And in all honesty, my original thought was - has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?" she told BBC News.
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It’s a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.
No, no, wait, just a piece of asphalt. Sorry. Common mistake. Nothing to see hear.
It mught very well be precisely 4.6 billion years old but the idea that this number represents their level of "scientific" knowledge about such things is utter BS! They are not scientists, they are LIARS.They couldn't plot the trajectory of that meteroite back 4.6 seconds!
Cool 😎
“’Ose gonna pay for the mess in me drive, eh?”
Not some ordinary stone...special stone.
So Chicken Little was right after all.
Here they have a gorgeous windfall, better than the national lottery land on their driveway and they throw the money they could have made right put of the window?
The science guys have huge money available from the government ready for just such an investment. Even with the UK's usurious taxes, they'd have made a bundle.
A Dr. Who story in the making...
The meteorite is evidence of accretion, the planet building mechanism
Are they SURE it is a meteorite, not alien spacecraft “DEBRIS”?
“DEBRIS” Good new show for us Sci Fi nuts.
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