La chasse au météore

Two amateur astronomers in a small American town spot the same meteor and fall out over who saw it first, just as their families are about to be joined by a wedding. When the meteor turns out to be a mass of solid gold falling slowly toward Earth, the whole world joins the quarrel. One of Verne's last novels, it turns his love of science into comic satire.

Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.