Flight Of The Meteor

One of my favourite recent stories was about a 'fireball' meteorite that blazed across the night sky over the South West last month. It was initially thought to have landed somewhere in the Cotswolds but was actually found in a driveway in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire.
The residents of the house heard a rattling noise and at first thought a picture had fallen off the wall. They looked out of the window but, as it was dark out, couldn't see anything so left it at that.
It was not until the morning that they went outside and found a black sooty splatter on the driveway right outside the house. Unsure what it was they collected up the pieces and contacted the UK Meteor Observation Network (didn't realise we had this in the UK!).
This is the first time in 20 years that a piece of space rock has landed and been recovered in the UK. Fragments have now been sent to the National History Museum where researchers have confirmed it consists of a material called carbonaceous chondrite and is over 4 billion years old - which could mean it would be able to give valuable insight into what the solar system looked like as planets were being formed.
Out of 65,000 meteorites in the entire world only 51 have been made of carbonaceous chondrite.
Sadly today's image, you won't be surprised to hear, is not actually a meteor blazing across the night sky. It was taken from inside my car whilst I was waiting to pick up my brother from the station -  the glare of a passing headlight acting as the meteor.
No cooking tonight - take away pie, chips, peas and gravy from our local pub. Absolutely delicious! Then watched the last in the series of Landscape Artist Of The Year on Sky Arts with several large glasses of wine. My kind of night in - mind you all nights are nights in at the moment!