* Astronomy

A Milton of Balgonie man has turned up another rare meteorite.
Rob Elliot found the space rock - the first of its kind ever discovered in Britain - in the Yorkshire Dales last August.
The 40lb rock is a pallasite, a metallic meteorite which is packed with semi-precious gemstones.
It's the latest in a large number of such objects found by Rob, a self-employed meteorite hunter and dealer who reckons he has "the most unusual job in the United Kingdom."
And he has appeared on many radio and television shows, ranging from 'Richard And Judy' to in-depth BBC documentaries.
The new rock had been analysed by experts at the Open University's planetary and space sciences research Institute in Milton Keynes.

"Study proved it to be a rare class of meteorite known as a pallisite, a metallic meteorite packed with translucent crystals of the semi-precious gemstone peridot. Earlier this month, the meteorite was accepted by the Meteoritical Society and officially named 'Hambleton' after the area in which it was found. The largest piece of the meteorite is destined for the British Museum and the Natural History Museum" - Rob Elliot .

Rob first became interested in space as a boy and his hobby became his profession after he left Hughes Microelectronics, now Raytheon Systems.

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