Customs officers in Dorohusk, on Poland’s border with Ukraine, have made an unusual seizure, confiscating nearly 530kg of meteorites they found hidden on a Russian-registered truck, officials said on Friday.
“In total, 529,5kg of meteorites were confiscated, including three very big ones, weighing 176 kilos, 150 kilos and 80 kilos,” Poland’s customs service said in a statement.
“They probably came from the same place in Siberia where a meteorite crashed in 1947,” the statement said.
According to the truck’s payload ledgers, its cargo was quartzite, a tough stone composed almost entirely of quartz grains, derived from sandstone. The truck was bound for the Czech Republic. – AFP