A meteorite（陨石）almost(hit) an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in the UK while he(work) on the farm. The meteorite was(big) in the past 26 years in the UK. It weighed（重）one kilo, and might be over 4,000,000,000years old.
"I heard the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw something falling from the sky to the ground（地面） (heavy)," he said, "I had a bad(feel) about it at that time. first I thought it was a plane."
Meteorites are small things from the space. about 3,500 meteorites may fall on the earth every year, only very few of these(fall) rocks are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in the UKthe year of 1939.
Mr. Pettifer is glad. "When you think about it coming from so far away. really is something strange."
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