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On Christmas Eve 60 years ago, with a sonic boom, a meteorite broke up over the Leicestershire village of Barwell. It remains one of the largest meteorite falls observed in Britain. Dave Radford from Barwell found a piece of the meteorite in 1966 and sold it to buy a new bike! BBC Leicester’s Ben Jackson went to meet Dave, and also Graham Ensor who owns a piece of the famous meteorite - that fell through the roof of a nearby factory. Dave told Ben what he found back in '66.
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