22 Nov 2022

Meteorite provides new insight about how water arrived on Earth

From Nights, 10:35 pm on 22 November 2022

The Winchcombe meteorite crashed onto a driveway in the UK last year. Scientists now say the space rock holds key information about how water arrived on Earth.

Jim Rowe is one of the authors of a detailed and newly-released analysis of the meteorite.

 

A fragment of the Winchcombe meteorite

A fragment of the Winchcombe meteorite Photo: Trustees of the Natural History Museum