“I was wanting a new bicycle, and I’d got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that,” David said.
He bought a 10-speed Raleigh racing bike, but said his mother made him set up a bank account with the remaining money.
“I was over the moon, literally,” David added.
“I love space, I love astronomy, and I’m into sci-fi, and if I ever got the chance, I’d like to go up there.”
David went hunting for more fragments after this, with the use of a magnet, as the meteorite had iron in.
He found another piece of rock and has kept it for 60 years, but it is likely slag, a material left over when iron has been smelted.