 Yna, mae gennym i gyd yn y studio bydd Samantha Bell ac Catherine Harrison, fe yna yma i'r Unedigedd Manchester. A rwy'n gwybod i'r cyfnod o'r Exibisi Swythes Cymru. Y gwych Cymru. Gweithi'n gwych. Gweithio! Yna yma'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod o'r cyfnod. Fel oedwch. Fel oedra lud ac yn Llyfrid 2021, You can all that study, figure out how the earth has formed in this kind of way. Wow, so a rock like this that fell to earth from space millions, billions of years ago. It would have formed 4.6 billion years ago so it's got some things in it that it's like all this thing you'll have a hole in your hand. But it fell to earth about a year and a half ago. It fell to earth a year and a half ago but something like this could have been the rock that came and brought life and water to earth when it originated. Chwyl fawr. Mae'n ddwy'n brifau. Rydyn ni wedi bod ni'n fydd o'r roi'r fawr arall? Felly mae'n 4.6bn fawr o'r ddweudol. Mae'n fawr o'r fawr o'r roi'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr, ond yw'n gweithio, mae'n gweithio'r cymdeithas, byddwch ymryddoedd yn y cysgol. Felly, mae'n gynhyrchu cefnod ffeydd yw'r system yn ffyrdd yn unig yn ymryddoedd. A byddai'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Yn ymatech yma yng Nghymru, ac mae hynny'n cynnig, yn ymwysig. Yn ymatech yma ymwysig angen i gael ymwysig ar y Ymwysig, mae mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. ond we knew that it'd fallen because of we've got a meteor camera network in the UK. So we've got cameras across the UK that are constantly looking up at the sky. Ready to track the fireballs. So when meteoros come through the atmosphere, they start to burn up and produce a fireball similar to like a shooting star. And if it's big enough, a bit of it will land on the surface of the earth. So what we can do is we can use the trajectory of the fireball to work out where the meteorite was going to fall. So we got people that figured out it was most likely going to be in the winchcom area, so near Cheltenham. So some of my colleagues went on the news and said, if anyone can find anything like a suspicious black rock, please get in touch with us. And then we're very lucky that Robin Catherine Wilcock heard this on the news and then they woke up the next morning and on the driveway there was a massive splat of black rock and it was a meteorite and it landed on their driveway. So they got in touch with us and we rushed over and then we found there was a meteorite which was just amazing. Yeah, and what happens next then? So you find this meteorite, how do you actually study it? So downstairs we've actually got a scanning electron microscope, which is one of the techniques that we'll commonly use to sort of identify different minerals within the meteorites. But essentially, yeah, that will get cut up into different sections and distributed to several different universities and institutions around the UK are involved in sort of classifying the meteorite as a sort of initial steps. And then I'm sure there's lots of interest in science that's going to be coming in the next few years out of this sample. So it's not finders keepers. No, so Robin Catherine Wilcock donated everything they found, the museum, which was amazing. Yes, really amazing for scientists to then study it. And tell me about this sample that you're holding. So yeah, we also brought a bit of a bigger one. So this is an iron meteorite. Oh, it's heavy. So it's nearly pure iron. It's got a very small amount of nickel in it. And these iron meteorites come from the cores of asteroids. So just like the earth's got a solid metal core, if an asteroid gets big enough, it can separate out and get all the denser iron will sink in towards the middle and form this core. And then if there's been a collision with between two asteroids, it reaches right into the core, bits of that core get fluff. And yes, I'm intersect and land on the earth and I've got a big chunk of one here. Amazing. So this must have been a big chunky one that landed. Yes, some of them can be like 20 plus tonnes of materials that landing. And there's something really interesting here. I'm a material scientist. So I'm nerding out right now because there's some really interesting sort of patterns that are formed in the metal of this meteorite. If I remember rightly, these are quite unique, aren't they, to meteorite iron? Like really high pressures to form these sort of, I think it's Vindman statin pattern. That's right, yes. I remember that. So yes, it's quite diagnostic of these iron meteorites and where they originated from. So if you did find this in your garden, you could take a slice and look for this. And that would tell you that it was meteorite iron. Amazing. So people at home might be asking themselves, you know, we can study these rocks to, you know, find out what they're made out of and sort of think about where they might have come from. What can this tell us about our solar system? So as specifically with sort of meteorites, like the windchickle meteorite, they're telling us about sort of the first stages of our solar system, like how planets were forming, where the sort of molecules that would eventually potentially have brought life to the Earth and things like that, where they were in the early solar system and what was happening way before even we were recording any of that in rocks on Earth. So, yeah, a unique sort of snapshot into the very early solar system. Exactly what happened and kind of where we came from. So you've been here at the Royal Society of Summer Expression experiencing it, talking to members of the public. What have they had to say about this? So they're really, really interested. I think it's such a unique thing being able to see something that's come from space. And obviously, because it fell in the UK, it's really captured a lot of people's imagination. And also, we've got such a range of meteorites on display as well. I think, yeah, people are pretty amazed that they can hold something that's 4.6 billion years old and it's come from space and fell in the UK kind of thing. Yeah, definitely. So what kind of scientists work on this then? So, I guess a lot of us are geologists. But there's also lots of chemists and physicists as well with different backgrounds coming together to look at these meteorites. But, yeah, I think we're both a geology perspective. Yes, you are. Amazing. And what are you hoping to kind of do next? What's next for you guys? So I guess one of the biggest things that we're really hoping to do is get more cameras out across the UK. So the more fireballs that we can track, the more meteorites we can hopefully find. So I think that's really helped having the winch can meteorite fall as made. It's really let the public know that meteorites are findable. So and also people can send in their own videos. So like doorbell cameras and cameras and cars. People can submit all the videos of fireballs and we can use all that information to work out lots of interesting science from it. And how many fireballs are there in the UK every year? Is this a rare occurrence? So there's like shooting stars all the time. So I think we expect a meteorite to fall in the UK about once every year, I think. Sure, a big enough one that we can land and be something that you can study. So there was a meteorite that potentially fell in Shrewsbury a couple of months ago, so we all went out hunting. Unfortunately, we didn't find anything. Yeah, so we're on track for about one every year. I think. Yeah, it's really exciting proof for the winch and that it does work, that we can track these things and go and retrieve them. Fantastic. Oh, thank you so much for talking to me today. And good luck with everything. Samantha Bell and Catherine Harrison from the University of Manchester.