The largest chunk of the meteorite, weighing about 40 kilograms, is repotedly worth around $26,000.
Residents of a remote town in northeastern Brazil called Santa Filomena recently received an unexpected bonanza when chunks of a meteorite believed to be 4.6 billion-year-old started falling “like rain” from the sky on 19 August, the Daily Mail reports.
According to the newspaper, the meteorite was a “rare chondrite which dates back to the origins of the Solar System”, and whose fragments turned out to be quite valuable, with the biggest chunk, weighing about 40 kilograms, being worth over £20,000 ($26,000) – “the same as 10 years’ worth of the average salary in the area”.
As the majority of the biggest rocks were discovered in the vicinity of the Catholic church near the town’s main square, it led to “further convincing” the locals that the meteorite was “sent by God”, the newspaper adds.
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