(Photo taken by Emma, author of http://challengethat.blogspot.com/)The rock that is, at the time of writing, on display at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, (currently on loan from the Natural History Museum) is a fragment of the Gibeon meteorite which fell in Namibia in prehistoric times. Small fragments of it were used to build weapons and tools by natives. The extraterrestrial origin of the rock was first confirmed in 1836 after fragments were analysed by John Herschel (no, not that Herschel. That Herschel was William Herschel, the guy who discovered Uranus. He was John's dad.)
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