Lot 70
Glenrothes
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£500
Description
Fragment
Dimensions
0.6g
Footnote
Glenrothes (Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland) H5 (stone) - found summer 1998
The Glenrothes meteorite is the first ever meteorite to be found on UK soil.
Several small fragments were found in relative close proximity to each other by Rob Elliott, and considered to be part of a small individual stone meteorite, which broke apart and fragmented during many years of freeze/thaw exposure to the UK's cold and damp weather. The total known weight of this find is 14.8g. No more fragments have been found after exhaustive searching of the locality and the site has almost certainly yielded all of the fragments that can practically be recovered.