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billion years in the making
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Welcome to my website
Me, Rob Elliott filming a tv show in the
Hambleton strewnfield, April 2012.
I'm former proprietor of one of the largest meteorite dealerships
in the World, and now a full-time meteorite hunter here in the UK.
I sometimes sell & swap meteorites that I have acquired in exchange for some of my earlier finds & collection pieces - see my sales pages
Several
meteorites have been seen to fall on British soil over the
centuries. A fireball crossing the sky and with meteorites
being picked up soon afterwards. Meteoriticists refer to these as
"witnessed falls" or simply just "falls".
Only THREE
meteorites have been found by chance in the UK, un-seen, un-heard
or maybe just un-noticed, yet waiting to be found and recognised.
Meteoriticists refer to these chance discoveries as "finds".
......I found them all!
(click on the
above images for information and pictures of each meteorite)
Fernlea Meteorites is owned and operated by myself, Rob Elliott. My background lies as an electronics engineer and designer of miltary control systems within the UK aerospace industry, and later with atomic weapon development for US Defence. Somewhere along the way, I began to collect meteorites and have since maintained a growing collection of rocks from space. This collecting passion later developed into a full time business which grew into one of the largest meteorite dealerships in the world. |
Rob Elliott |
A 1.3kg freshly fallen
stone meteorite, |
The meteorites advertised on our sale pages are genuine rocks from space. However, a meteorite is not a meteorite just because I or anyone else thinks it is, or because we might believe it to be......in reality, meteorites have to be formally recognised, authenticated, studied, classified and named before they can truly be accepted as meteoric material originating from outside planet Earth. For these reasons, our meteorites have been professionally authenticated as such by recognised institutions and individuals involved in the study of meteoritics. |
Many of our meteorites
have been acquired through trade with scientists,
researchers & curators of the World's top museums,
institutions and National Collections - we offer them
meteorites that aren't yet represented in their
collection, and in return they offer us meteorites that
aren't represented in our collection. This arrangement benefits everyone involved, because not only do our respective collections grow accordingly, but new meteorites then become available for research and study. |
A beautiful 845g Pultusk
meteorite, |
A beautifully flight-marked 2.5kg
iron meteorite |
Meteorites come in a variety of different shapes and sizes. Quickly recovered meteorites that have not suffered from long exposure to the harmful effects of the World's weather, show fusion crust and regmaglypts ("thumbprints") over their surface - the result of high speed, often very violent, flight through our Earth's atmosphere. |
This perfectly formed impact crater is only 4mm in diameter, and was formed by a "shooting star" - around the same size as the point on a needle - as it smashed into this Russian space station and vaporised on contact. Dashing around the solar system at speeds of several miles per second can take it's toll on incoming space dust! Click here for more pictures & information. | Space Station Zap Pit |
A stony meteorite which
fell to through the roof and ceiling |
Well, it probably isn't a real meteorite. Please be aware of the
following: |
Chicken Little was right ~ the sky is falling!
Meteorite Hunting
Click here for some more of my meteorite hunting trips
My Meteorites for Sale Listings
Fernlea, The
Wynd, Milton of Balgonie, Fife. KY7 6PY United Kingdom
Please
- no requests to authenticate old rock and stone finds
I've heard the
"My grandad saw it fall in a field and gave it to me!"
story (and all variations) a zillion times
Telephone: 07880-888660
Email: fernlea4@aol.com
© Rob Elliott