* Astronomy

A Wigan man had an out of this world experience during a fossil search, stumbling across the remnants of a meteorite.
Retired engineer and commercial inventor Jim Winstanley, 70, agreed to a "pass the time" dinosaur hunt with his nine-year-old granddaughter, Emma Roberts at Bideford, on the Devon coast, during a week-long seaside family holiday.
And no sooner had the pair begun scrabbling about among the rocks along the famed Jurassic Coast, than they stumbled across what they initially believed could have been the top of a fossilised dinosaur egg shell.
But when he began scraping the encrusted sand and mud away, the 70-year-old began to realise that the object was like nothing he had even seen before.
An exhaustive trawl of astronomical websites when he returned home has led him to the conclusion that he has found the remnants of a meteorite, which could be thousands, or even millions of years old.
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