The Serra da Cangalha impact crater in the state of Tocantins in Brazil. The meteor that created it is estimated to have struck the country about 220 million years ago. — Dado Galdieri/The New York Times
IN villages and tile-roofed homes across the vast expanse of Brazil’s countryside, rumours 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 Jacilandia in the midwestern state of Goias, recently found himself at the centre of growing public curiosity.
