UK Man Earns $64,000 After Quitting Job to Find Fragments of Meteorite - Sputnik International

The celestial body landed on Earth last February, sparking major hunt amongst amateur astronomers as well as people willing to earn money. The meteorite is unique as it is extremely rare. There are only 51 samples of it in collections across the globe.

You are talking about less than a bag of sugar spread over 10 miles, so it was a real mind game. The search probably cost me £10,000 ($13,000) in costs and lost earnings, he said.

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