In touch with meteorites

To mark Asteroid Day, ESA Web TV pays a social call to two neighbours of ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, both of which contain chunks of iron meteorites. While one, at ESTEC’s Space Expo visitor centre is available to be seen and touched by the general public, the other is on private property inside the nearby Decos IT management company – but both meteorites came from the same impact site.