The meteorite crashed into a driveway in the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe last February and is believed to hold clues about where the water in the Earth's vast oceans came from Extra-terrestrial water has been discovered for the first time in a meteorite that landed in the UK.
The meteorite crashed into a driveway in the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe last February and is believed to hold clues about where the water in the Earth's vast oceans came from Some 12% of the sample was made up of water, and offers a lot of insights since it was the least contaminated specimen to be collected.
according to Ashley King a researcher in the planetary materials group at the Natural History Museum "The composition of that water is very very similar to the composition of water in the Earth's oceans," he told the British Science Festival.
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