It’s 1969 in the sleepy country town of Murchison when, while Lucky is milking the cows, a meteorite hurls across the sky and lands, making houses shake, windows rattle and spooking the cows. The explosion scattered over 100 kg of extraterrestrial debris across the countryside. One of the hissing rocks is picked up by Lucky who carefully puts it in her pocket.
Excited scientists come to study the space debris because it is rarer than moon rocks. Lucky wonders about her rock and devises various unsuccessful ways to return it to space before finally deciding to give it to a museum where the little star ‘would shine a light on the mysteries of the universe.’
The back matter explains things in more detail – where the meteorite came from, why it is important, what it is made of, and other questions are answered in some detail. There is also an excellent glossary – the universe is ‘everthing that exists – matter, energy, space and everything in it.’
