Back then many of us gathered with Beagle's mastermind, Prof Colin Pillinger, to wait to hear the first signal that the spacecraft had touched down safely.
Many examples, according to Dr Pillinger, have probably been discarded over the years because they did not fit the existing notions of what meteorites should look like.
But, observes Colin Pillinger of the Open University, a British member of the Flying Stones team, the experiment will cost almost nothing to carry out, so it is worth a try in any case.