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It came from Outer Space the Meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds Cul de sac by Helen Gordon Read by Sasha Frost At 21:54 on 28th February 2021,
16 cameras belonging to amateur sky watching network UKMON picked up a bright shape headed towards Earth.
Pictures show a long white line which was visible for eight seconds,
a glowing globule of light against the dark sky.
For me it's like fishing, said Richard Carcerak,
one of the founders of you came on, you cast your line and then you wait.
There are days when you catch nothing, but there are days when you catch a really, really big fish.
And it's so exciting.
The fireball of February 2021 was such a fish,
a lump of flaming extraterrestrial rock traveling at a speed of about 8.4 miles a second,
15 times the speed of a rifle bullet, and headed for the Cotswold market town of Winchcombe.
Meteorites are rocks from space that have entered our atmosphere.
Most were once part of asteroids, the rocky,
airless remnants left over from the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
Almost all of them are what collectors call finds,
meaning that the stone has been discovered by searching the ground,