An man from Indonesia has come into some money after a meteorite worth £1.4 million ($1.8m) crashed through the roof of his house:
After the space rock crashed into 33-year-old Josua Hutagalung's home in Kolang, North Sumatra, it was discovered that it weighed 2.1kg and is around 4.5 billion years old.
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According to the Metro, the meteor is classified as CM1/2 carbonaceous Chondrite, an extremely rare variety - which is worth around £1.4 million, or £645 per gram.
Josua was reportedly given the equivalent to 30 years' salary for the rock. Not a bad day's work, is it?
He told local media website, Kompas: "When I lifted it, the stone was still warm and I brought it into the house. The sound was so loud that parts of the house were shaking too. And after I searched, I saw that the tin roof of the house had broken.
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"I strongly suspect that this rock is indeed an object from the sky that many people call a meteorite. Because it is impossible someone deliberately threw it or dropped it from above."
Josua, a dad-of-three, revealed that he would be using part of his earnings to build a church in his community.
That's not the only thing he's hoping to do either. Speaking to The Sun, Josua said: "I have also always wanted a daughter, and I hope this is a sign that I will be lucky enough now to have one."
US meteorite expert Jared Collins, who bought part of the rock, said: "My phone lit up with crazy offers for me to jump on a plane and buy the meteorite. It was in the middle of the Covid crisis and frankly it was a toss-up between buying the rock for myself or working with scientists and collectors in the US.
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"I carried as much money as I could muster and went to find Josua, who turned out to be a canny negotiator."
The meteorite has now been shipped to the US and has been bought by a doctor and meteorite collector from Indianapolis.
Earlier this year, thousands flocked to a remote Brazilian town after hundreds of chunks of meteorite rained down, with the largest piece said to be worth more than £20,000 ($26,000).
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The pieces of space rock are believed to be part of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite, dating back to the start of the solar system.