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Dean Forsyth and Seth Stanforth, two amateur astronomers living in the Virginia town of Whaston, scan the night sky independently. Both men discover a previously unrecorded meteor at virtually the same moment. What begins as a shared astronomical triumph quickly curdles into an intense personal feud over who gets official credit for the discovery.
Francis Gordon and Jenny Stanforth find their planned marriage caught in the crossfire of their uncles' bitter feud. As Dean Forsyth and Seth Stanforth refuse to speak to one another, the young lovers attempt to preserve their relationship against family hostility. Financial greed and academic vanity drown out ordinary human warmth.
In France, the eccentric genius Zephyrin Xirdal develops an apparatus capable of generating an energy beam that can manipulate gravitational pull. Indifferent to wealth himself, Xirdal realizes he can alter the meteor's trajectory and choose where it falls. His invention shifts the balance of power from passive tracking to active control.
The meteor falls onto a remote island off the coast of Greenland, igniting an international rush to claim the territory. Armies, fleets, and legal envoys assemble, each nation desperate to secure the solid gold mountain. Forsyth and Stanforth arrive on site, continuing their quarrel while international tensions reach a boiling point.
Calculations reveal that the approaching bolide is composed entirely of pure gold, weighing millions of tons. The prospect of a celestial windfall worth trillions of dollars turns astronomical curiosity into global frenzy. Nations and financiers realize that if such a vast mass of gold lands on Earth, it will instantly devalue currency markets worldwide.
Intense thermal energy and weight cause the cliff supporting the golden meteor to collapse into the ocean. The vast mass of gold sinks into unrecoverable depths, leaving the rival nations empty-handed. Forsyth and Stanforth finally reconcile, forced to admit the absurdity of destroying their peace over lost riches.
A satirical tale of two astronomers whose discovery of a golden meteor unleashes global greed and personal rivalry.