Customs discovered the smuggling of an object that had arrived from space

Stationed at the international pass of Agua Negra, at 4780 meters above sea level, in the middle of the Andes mountains, agents Customs they were inspecting vehicles which entered Argentina from Chile when they ran into something from another planet.

After distinguishing a a large amount of stones in the back seat area of ​​the Argentinian patent carthey told the driver that due to phytosanitary reasons they would have to reject them to enter the country.

The man, a pensioner from Córdoba, agreed, but with one caveat: one stone in particular, brilliant in appearance.

Specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs-AFIP examined it and immediately found that its weight was not in accordance with its size: Suspecting that it could be a cultural or heritage asset, they kept it and filed a report.

The rock weighing 12 and a half kilograms and 27 centimeters long was quickly transferred to Buenos Aires to be analyzed by the Argentine Mining and Geological Service (SEGEMAR), which He concluded that it was a meteorite.

Indeed, SEGEMAR scientists have revealed in their report the presence of depressions that "correspond to rhegmaglypts formed by ablation when a meteorite penetrates the Earth's atmosphere".

They also assured Carina that their composition had an iron/nickel ratio not found on Earth.

Considering that Law 26.306 determines that meteorites entering the territory of Argentina are cultural property, the celestial object in question was definitively forbidden to import, as stated in Article 610 of the Customs Code.

Therefore, the seizure carried out by the body chaired by Guillermo Michel is part Resolution on illegal traffic of cultural goods World Customs Organization.