Kasuri Triangle

 

Hannah Wilcock didn’t see it happen, but she heard a dull thud Sunday night, February 28. She looked out the window, but it was too dark to see anything. The next morning Hannah and her family found something dark had splatted on the drive. “My original thought was, ‘Has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?’” It was a rare meteorite made of carbonaceous chondrite. Meteorites like this have been known to contain amino acids - ingredients for life. It had traveled at 17km per second, lighting the skies over much of Europe, to land in the Wilcock’s driveway. Almost 300 grams of it survived the fiery trip and were recovered. Scientists from The Open University, Imperial College London and the Universities of Glasgow, Manchester, and Plymouth will be studying this new find. Most meteorites come from asteroids; leftover building blocks of the solar system that can tell us how planets like ours formed.