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Brazil’s Space Rock Stars
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Brazilian scientists race against collectors to acquire meteorites for research, highlighting a lack of regulation and the cultural impact of these celestial events.

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The Space Rock Stars of Brazil

Text by Sam Cowie

Photographs by Dado Galdieri

Sept. 2, 2025

In villages and tile-roofed homes scattered across the vast expanse of Brazil’s countryside, rumors swirl: tales of lights in the sky, prices whispered over WhatsApp chats and collectors arriving from distant lands.

Since a meteorite fell near his home three years ago, Adriano Gomes, an evangelical Christian pastor living in tiny rural Jacilândia in the midwestern state of Goiás, recently found himself at the center of growing public curiosity.

“It came sounding like a plane,” Mr. Gomes said. “I was afraid of even touching it, not knowing what it was.”

Mr. Gomes knew the meteorite was valuable. Everyone had told him so — the hunters who came knocking, the online forums buzzing with speculation, even a collector from São Paulo who offered him cash.

In May, he was visited by Elizabeth Zucolotto and Elisa Rocha, both geologists and members of As Meteoriticas, an all-female team of scientist...

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