WINCHCOMBE METEORITE

What is a meteorite?

• Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids.
  
  
• But when meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere they are called meteors.
  
  
• But if a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called a meteorite.
  
  

How was the meteorite discovered?

• The piece of meteorite, which is a 103 gram fragment of black rock resembling coal, was found in a field by one Mira Ihasz and a team from the University of Glasgow.
  
  
• The meteorite landed in the driveway of a house located in Gloucestershire in February and considered “astonishingly rare”.