Researchers made an extraordinary discovery when they found extraterrestrial liquid water in the Winchcombe meteorite, which fell onto a driveway in the UK’s Gloucestershire town last February. Around 12% of the sample was made up entirely of water and found to be very similar to the composition of water in the Earth’s oceans.
The Natural History Museum’s Dr King also confirmed that Winchcombe was the first time ever a meteorite contained extraterrestrial water, locked up in minerals. Since the 0.5-pound meteorite was retrieved within 12-hours, none of the meteor’s content was contaminated by materials on Earth. doghouse that was struck by a meteorite recently sold for $44,000 USD, so if that should ever happen to you, be sure to not throw out the piece of space rock or what it hit.
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For most meteorites the challenge we have is that they are just contaminated, whereas with Winchcombe we really know that it really hasn’t been contaminated, so it’s good evidence We always try and match the composition of the water meteorites and other extra-terrestrial materials to the composition of the water on the Earth,” said Ashley King, a researcher in the planetary materials group at the Natural History Museum.
