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There is no better place to start explaining what so fascinates me about meteorites than Winston Churchill’s fish pond. Churchill lived for many years at a grand old house called Chartwell, which happens to be close to my home. The property and its elegant grounds are now open to the public, so I often take my children there for a run around, and we always…