In 1912, the city of Colomera area (province of Granada) has fallen meteorite. To this fact, then, practically no one attached any importance: the space alien came into contact with the surface at dawn, when the majority of the population was still watching sweet dreams. Stone swung buried in the ground on the meter, so was not detected immediately, and the fluctuations in the soil, caused in this case, residents blamed on account of the earthquake, there are, in general, are not uncommon. After some time, the boulder was excavated ubiquitous boys and became a kind of tourist attraction of the town - it male population demonstrated his physical strength. The stone was disproportionately heavy for earth measurements: a half-meter length of the elongated almost flat chip "cliff" weighed as it turned out later, 134 kilos.

Only in 1930, thanks to the interest shown by a meteorite student Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Granada Julio Mateos, who learned of the fragment is not quite normal, proposed head of the department of the same faculty Jose Dorronsoro "take the analysis a few fragments". The professor came to the conclusion that "the stone has a cosmic origin and perhaps once was a part of the nucleus of a distant planet, one flown apart and exploded into pieces, went for a walk through the universe".

In 1967, a meteorite with a host resolution (transmission stone CSIC signed a contract according to which the residence time of the stone at their disposal by the term "until the moment when the owner does not require a return") was taken to the United States, where scientists from the University of California from space object sawed off a few pieces of (how many - nobody knows). Samples were necessary to the American space agency NASA for research "in order to obtain the maximum of information that can be used in the organization of the flight to the Moon".

Some experts do not rule out that the sawn (or chipped) pieces of the meteorite were subsequently issued for the samples of lunar soil, delivered by the crew of Neil Armstrong (it was necessary something to confirm that the flight actually took place!) In 2008, the "life line" meteorite cool changed. Residents Colomer decided that such an attraction by itself need. Daughter of Antonio Pontes Vives - Vives Amparo declared their rights to inheritance and notified MNCN, that the moment of the return provided by the contract, came.

And it turned out that the return CSIC boulder in its original form can not, because it is sawed stone repeatedly on test samples, and has something (what history is silent).

Then Amparo nothing more to do but to go to court with a claim for compensation for the cost of her "source codec Xvid property", which MNCN experts at the time was estimated at 600,000 euros. Experts hired by the Amparo, evaluated each gram of meteorite € 5.66, that in multiplying its weight given the amount of € 758,440, which the heir to the museum and demanded.

Appellee, discussed recently, has not been satisfied, Spain writes in Russian.

Experts interviewed by the newspaper, no doubt that "to be the largest piece of the celestial body, which until recently was shown at the museum, is now traveling the hands of private collectors in the form of small samples".