16th January
It is a varied life on the way to becoming a meteorite.
Your elements begin life in the heart of an exploding supernova.
You might then travel through space for billions of years – perhaps growing larger from collisions with other nomadic debris.
You might then enter the solar system and silently make your way towards the Earth.
You might then blaze your way through Earth’s atmosphere – your exterior being spectacularly burned away by the heat of friction with the air.
Finally, your last remaining thirty kilograms of iron might approach the ground, ultimately crashing through the front wall of number 18 Church Road, Waterford, Hampshire.