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The roof of his house suddenly fell and he gained a wealth

  • Writer: Bassma Al Jandaly, Editor In Chief
    Bassma Al Jandaly, Editor In Chief
  • Nov 19, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 20, 2020





Indonesia -- A poor man became a millionaire overnight in Indonesia after working as a simple coffin maker, but an “extraordinary phenomenon” changed everything in his life.


According to the British newspaper “The Independent”, a precious meteorite fell on the roof of the man’s house worth 1.8 million dollars..


Joshua Hotaga Lang was working on a coffin in front of his house in Kunlang when suddenly a 2.1 kilogram rock fell on the roof of the house..


As soon as the noise was gone, the 33-year-old looked for the meteorite and found it in the floor of the garden next to the house.


Joshua said in a press release that the noise made by the meteor was so loud that parts of the house were shaken by the fall of the space object.


Pointing out that part of the roof of the house was destroyed when the meteor fell, making an unforeseen fortune, he added, “When I touched it, it was still warm.“.


This meteorite that fell into the Indonesian man̵



7;s house came from the “carbon chondrite” and is very rare. Scientists estimate that its age is 4.5 billion years and its price is around $ 857 per gram..

The new millionaire said he sold the meteorite to an American expert, Jared Collins, who in turn sold the piece to another American who collects space objects and is currently available for study at the University of Arizona’s Center for Meteorite Studies represents..

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