UK’s ‘biggest’ meteorite

What is considered the biggest meteorite to have fallen in the UK was on display for two weeks in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum.

Experts say the 90kg meteorite landed on earth 30,000 years ago. It is believed to have been discovered in Wiltshire by Edward Duke in the 19th century.

The rock is known as common chondrite and is half a metre long, preserved by the last ice age and the chalk environment of the local area. The meteorite was built into a Stone Age burial mound, where Edward Duke is thought to have found it. The meteorite then spent the next 80 years by the door of Lake House, which Duke owned, and has since been in storage at the Natural History Museum.

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