A lump of a rare meteorite has been recovered in the Winchcombe area of Gloucestershire, UK.

It is the first meteorite that's been recovered in the UK for 30 years

Scientists have described the find as "incredibly rare event."

Dr Ahsley King, a fellow at the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, told Sky News: "The type of meteorite that we've managed to get our hands on is a really rare type of meteorite as well so it's doubly exciting for us.

"It's what we call a carbonaceous chondrite type of meteorite. These are really interesting because they are pretty much the most pristine materials that we have available from space. They take us all the way back to 4.6 billion years ago in our solar system - they're the materials that were there as our solar system was forming."

Footage filmed in Warwickshire shows the fireball meteor lighting up the night sky on February 28.

Spectacular footage of the metor and fireball which fell ove rthe UK on the night of 28th Feb 2021. Metor travelling around 30,000 mph bursts into a fireball as it travels though the atmosphere.