A Blackpool businessman has made an out-of-this-world discovery outside his shop.
Paul Rump, owner of Paul James Furniture in Squires Gate, noticed a strange 12cm-wide rock next to his car when he opened up on Saturday morning. He said: “I picked it up and it was really heavy and it looked odd. I took it inside and told one of the lads, then I threw it in the bin. Then a little while later, one of the lads said he’d heard something on the radio about a meteor shower in Stoke the other night, and that they were asking people to look out for bits of it that had landed.
Until then, he says he doesn’t know what to do with it, but has heard that pieces of meteors sell at auction, or can be donated to museums. He said: “It’s a very bizarre find, but lucky I suppose - and lucky that it didn’t go through my car windscreen or shop window!” What happened? According to the UK Fireball Alliance, a bright fireball shot across the sky on May 6, and could have dropped meteorite in the Stoke area.
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