The Shooting Star (The Adventures of Tintin 10)

After a fragment of a potentially world-shattering meteoroid falls into the Arctic Ocean, Tintin joins one of two rival expeditions racing to lay claim to the material first.The story was originally published in the French language Belgian newspaper Le Soir, from October 1941 to May 1942, during the German occupation of Belgium during World War II "In this adventure, a meteorite containing an unknown metal falls to earth, and Tintin and his friends are involved in a race against time to find it."--Publisher description Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock search in the polar regions for a vast meteorite containing a valuable new metal. What is Tintin doing in the land of exploding mushrooms and giant butterflies?