A rock which rested inconspicuously on the doorstep of a house for at least 80 years has been revealed as the biggest meteorite ever found to have landed in Britain.
The 200lb space rock, which is 1.6ft long, had been sitting by the front door of Lake House, a stately home near Wilsford-cum-Lake, Wiltshire, since the early 1900s. It is thought to have landed on Earth 30,000 years ago.
It had been thought that the rock landed in another part of the world before being brought England by a collector .... Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk
