All rights reserved. Starting in the asteroid belt, it reached Earth at least 10,000 years ago, landing in a frozen, unknown northern wasteland.
The color change is currently attributed to changing salinity levels and the presence of algae in the water. ©2020 Verizon Media. There it languored, Pillinger says, "unloved and forgotten," until about 2 years ago.But then, Pillinger and his colleagues, while studying a much smaller meteorite found in the 1970s at Danebury hill fort in Hampshire County--about 20 kilometers from Lake House--began wondering if the two meteorites were part of the same original object. And now the Lake House meteorite will be kept from public eyes no longer. The stone, which weighs 90kg, sat near the front door of Lake House, at Wilsford-cum-Lake, for at least 80 years. It was then transported south by a glacier, deposited on Salisbury Plain and probably used to build a tomb by Iron Age man. Last Tuesday, a small group from the Open University headed down to the For as long as anyone could remember, a large rusty bolder sat close to the front door of The reason Professor Pillinger wanted to take another look at the specimen was because its composition matched that of But questions still remained.

"Meanwhile, if you are in London anytime between now and 30 March, you can see the two meteorites--plus a piece of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree that was taken into space by a British astronaut in 2010--in the Royal Society's Objects in Space exhibit. The Natural History Museum confirmed its meteorite status and kept it in storage after the house was sold. ©2020 Verizon Media.

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The lecture is recorded and the slides available. All rights reserved.Important conversations are happening now. Jull and M. Ashcroft. The Museum has a fine collection of local archaeological artefacts, particularly appropriate in view of the possibility that the meteorite may once have been used in the construction of an Iron Age burial mound.To celebrate the opening of the meteorite display, the Museum has organised a two week programme of activities aimed at school students, in which they will also have the opportunity to study other meteorites and Apollo lunar samples supplied by the And so, “the meteorite from Lake House” seems to have finally come to the end of its long journey. It was then dug up by a gentleman archaeologist and, for perhaps a century or so, rested near the doorstep of the Lake House mansion. The house has been featured in Architectural Digest, and Styler was inspired by the idyllic farm setting to write The Lake House Cookbook.But there's one thing Sting and Trudie didn't get when they moved in: a 93 kilogram meteorite that had sat near the front door for at least 80 years. And this fall, it will go on display at Wiltshire's Salisbury Museum, where many of the artifacts found at Stonehenge are now housed and where thousands of visitors flock each year.When the meteorite landed, some 30,000 years ago, in what would later become Sting's front yard, it traveled directly from outer space. The Lake House Meteorite Brian John brings Colin Pillinger's Royal Society lecture on the Lake House Meteorite to my attention.

Adrian Green, director of the Salisbury Museum where the meteorite will go on display, says that the details are still being worked out with its owners, the Bailey family, but that the huge rock should be there for a "long-term loan.

When the English musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler bought the Lake House estate in England's rural Wiltshire County in the early 1990s, they got a lot for their money: A beautiful 16th century home and 26 hectares of land on the River Avon, just a stone's throw from Stonehenge. The sample from Lake House was confirmed as a meteorite by Robert Hutchison [3] and subsequently returned to its owners. Add your voice! The meteorite landed on earth some 30,000 years ago and was apparently preserved by the frozen conditions during the last ice age. In the early 1990s, it was transported to the Natural History Museum, London, and eventually consigned to a storage warehouse. Professor Pillinger and his wife Judith undertook But who had found the meteorite and put it on the doorstep of Lake House? How did the meteorite get to Lake House and how come the owners seemed to know that the rusty, weathered bolder was a meteorite? In 1991 a very big meteorite (>60kg, dimensions: diameter 50cm x height 40cm) was brought to the Natural History Museum by the then occupier of Lake House, a country mansion in Wiltshire, UK, associated with a large estate of the same name. adshelp[at]cfa.harvard.edu The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AC86A But between now and 30 March, the meteorite is on display at the Royal Society in London, thanks to the efforts of a meteorite expert who has recently been studying it.
The other option is that the technique is only dating the considerable activity occurring in the area at the time. Title: The meteorite from Lake House Authors: C.T. After all that, it is comforting to know that the meteorite is now on open display at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, where hopefully it will help to inspire and excite visitors for many years to come.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Just before the sale, the Bailey family (descendants of a noted lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Artillery and his aristocrat wife), from whom Sting bought the house, loaned the meteorite to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, where it sat in storage for most of the past 2 decades. Starting in the asteroid belt, it reached Earth at least 10,000 years ago, landing in a frozen, unknown northern wasteland.

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