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A little out there - the end is nign - strange meteor that grows strange things
we love the TinTin series--After a string of stories loosely based on mystery/crime plots, 'The Shooting Star' initiates the formula that would become fairly standard in the Tintin books to come: the science-fiction adventure, a kind of modernist Jules Verne. A huge meteorite flying past earth splinters a large fragment which lands near the North Pole. Containing a new metal called phostlite, named after the astronomer who detected it, Tintin and Snowy join an expedition of world-class scientists to lay claim to the rock, in a ship captained by one Haddock, now unlikely President of the Society for Sober Sailors (despite smuggling crates of whiskey for the journey). Their quest, however, is pre-empted by another expedition, financed by crooked Sao Rico banker, cigar-chomping , Bohlwinkel.
It was thought to be the end of the Earth, but no! It was only a prediction of an earth quake resulting from the collision of a huge meteorite. Tintin, Haddock and Snowy along with several other Professors set out on a journey to the freezing Atlantic to capture the meteore where a new metal exists. They have to beat another enemy to it with their continuous attempts to kill Tintin and the others.
