A HAUNTING final image shows a football player proudly holding a trophy after winning a tournament moments before he was shot dead had left the pitch to change clothes at his car when he was shot twice by a man on a motorcycle The shocking shooting happened in the city of Palmas de Monte Alto The shooter - who has not been identified - fled towards the neighbouring city of Guanambi The shooting is currently being investigated by Palmas de Monte Alto Police Santos had won the  2nd Sitio Brutus Football Championship, an amateur football tournament the night he was killed. Santos was well-known and liked in the local area, having played for several amateur football teams in the area. The Liga Desportiva Guanambiense, the entity responsible for the tournament that Santos won the night of his death, have officially suspended matches in the Guanbaniese Municipal Championship until September 10, in a statement on their Instagram. writing that he was “a great human being.” Colleagues have paid tributes on social media with one writing on Santos’ Instagram profile: "Go in peace and with God Santos was buried on September 2 at the Malhada do Meio Cemetery in the city Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/ Fragments of one of the largest asteroids in the solar system recovered by researchers in Amazonia a fireball crossed the sky from northeast to southwest and exploded with a boom that was heard for miles around The meteorite broke apart and fell to the ground in the village of Serra Pelada in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Pará Some residents collected pieces that fell near a school; one 5.4-kilogram (kg) fragment fell on the premises of a mining company and was collected by an electrician had an idea about what the rock was and contacted meteorite specialist Maria Elizabeth Zucolotto a researcher at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Studies conducted by researchers from the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo indicated that it was a rare type of meteorite that probably broke apart from Vesta one of the largest and brightest asteroids in the solar system Vespa is part of the asteroid belt located roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter “Asteroid collisions can cause pieces to break off and enter into orbit around the Sun,” says astronomer Thais Mothé Diniz who studied meteorites at UFRJ’s Valongo Observatory and is currently a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Alesund which is when they become known as meteors.” When they reach the surface of the planet is a basaltic rock primarily composed of two minerals—feldspar and silicates—known as pyroxenes as well as lower volumes of quartz and apatite as described in an article published in the journal Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Science) in February 2018 the Serra Pelada meteorite entered Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of somewhere between 11 and 70 km per second As it was slowed down by friction with the air But only two pieces were recovered—many others Zucolotto’s study reinforces the hypothesis that the meteorite came from Vesta based on the unique chemical composition of the asteroid It was the first recorded meteorite to have landed in Amazonia and is the third Vesta fragment to have been collected in Brazil which weighed about 1.8 kg and fell in the municipality of Alagoinha which weighed about 2.5 kg and fell in the municipality of Martinho Campos The largest meteorite ever found in Brazil is the Bendego which was discovered in the state of Bahia in 1784 74 meteorites have been identified in Brazil “Meteorites are composed of the remnants of what formed our solar system They are important pieces in the puzzle of how the planets formed and evolved offering samples of the bodies from which they originated retain the same composition as they had 4.56 billion years ago dating back to the origin of the solar system,” says Zucolotto When Rocha called to tell her about the event Zucolotto was searching for fragments of another meteorite in Palmas de Monte Alto She changed her plans and traveled immediately to the village of Serra Pelada where she and collector André Moutinho began looking for traces of the rock met members of the Landless Workers’ Movement in Eldorado dos Carajás and travelled along isolated stretches of the Trans-Amazonian Highway and they knew that the 5.4 kg piece they came for had already been sold to a foreign buyer the Friends of the National Museum Society provides funding to support these purchases,” she says Zucolotto has experience hunting meteorites she helped track down two Americans who had stolen a very rare type of meteorite from the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro fell in the municipality of Angra dos Reis in 1869 and the thieves replaced it with a worthless replica The Angrito is one of the oldest rock types in the solar system with only 28 confirmed specimens in the world The switch was quickly noticed and the meteorite recovered with the help of the Federal Police at Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro the Angrito had a high commercial value because of its rarity but a very similar meteorite weighing 40 kg was recently found in Argentina causing its value to plummet,” she says the meteorite could have been worth as much as US$3.5 million to collectors Scientific article ZUCOLOTTO, M. E. et al. Serra Pelada: The first Amazonian meteorite fall is a eucrite (basalt) from asteroid 4-Vesta © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved.