I just wrote about the identification of a new whale species in the Gulf of Mexico. Also happening this year was a meteorite fall in Britain, first since 1991. There was a widely-viewed fireball in the skies on the last day of February, and when the fall zone was delineated, meteorite hunters went looking for chunks. Some of them weren't hard to find, as a big piece landed smack in a driveway.
Turns out this was a carbonaceous chondrite, very rare and very valued (because of its organic carbon content), much more than the common iron-rich stones from space.
A lot of the pieces weren't very big. Note fingernail for scale. Very nice crust on this one.
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