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On 9 October 2012, Michael Bates was crowned Prince Michael I of Sealand, a self-declared micronation occupying a decommissioned Second World War sea fort seven nautical miles off Suffolk. Founded in 1967 by his father, former pirate radio broadcaster Paddy Roy Bates, Sealand has weathered coups, fires, legal ambiguity, and international bewilderment whilst maintaining its claim to sovereignty. Also on this date in 1992, a 12.6-kilogram meteorite punched through the boot of a Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York, after travelling four billion years through space. The fall was filmed accidentally by dozens of football spectators, making it one of the most documented meteorite impacts in history. Finally, 9 October 1410 marks the earliest known written mention of the Prague Astronomical Clock, a medieval mechanical marvel that has tracked time, celestial movements, and saints’ days for over six centuries. Three stories about human ambition, cosmic timing, and the strange persistence of things that refuse to disappear.