Meteorite Hits Canada

Are you seeing it?

Can you see that it does not look like a rock?

Doesn't that countdown page show a red location arrow over the Alaskan Canadian Region? I also thought it's was translated somewhere saying an Asteroid was going to hit. Wondering if that Plane going missing is actually people disappearing into bunkers? Who knows. Strange times.

That is no meteor

no wonder the government wants your help to help them find their alien craft

Exactly!

Didn't you hear?
Presidential Law Passed last week:
"...All meteorites that remain in tact and considered
valuable (or if Michelle likes the color)...will now
belong to the current President of the United States!"
(That's a joke, by the way!)


Obama: "Get away from that meteorite!
It's mine! They're ALL MINE!!"

You're right. What the hell is that?

Because there is much more uninhabited land on the planet than inhabited.

The same reasons why flying saucers only land outside of hick towns and scare people around a bonfire.

Off topic but why does your boyfriend jesus keep throwing rocks at us?

The video is from Nova Scotia. Southern Ontario is where the meteorite hit. It's approximately the same distance as Detroit to Boston.

What does the video of a Nova Scotia fireball have to do with a meteorite in Southern Ontario?

On the idea of "finders keepers", the history of meteorite hunting is full of stories like that. Also the idea of "possession is 9/10th of the law", where if you are in possession of something, someone would have to somehow prove that it is not yours.

Perhaps the most epic and amusing battle was over the Williamette meteorite. At 32,000 pounds, the largest meteorite ever found in North America, and the 6th largest on Earth.

An Oregon resident found it in 1902 on a neighboring property owned by a business. It took him 3 months of work to drag the meteorite onto his property, where he promptly put it on display, charged money to see and, and caused quite a sensation. He literally didn't cover his tracks good enough, because the business could still see the drag marks. It ended up in court, the business regained possession, and it now resides in the American Museum of Natural history in NYC.

The local Native American tribe in Oregon had used the meteorite as a ceremonial object for centuries, and in 1999 sued to get it back. An agreement was worked out that it could remain on display at the museum, but that tribe members could have annual access to it for private ceremonies-

Here's a brief video about the saga-



On the point of governments and NASA asking people to turn in found material, it often happens after a witnessed fall.

And their are even laws prohibiting private meteorite collecting in some areas.

In Antarctica, by international treaty, any meteorites found are strictly for scientific research and not for sale. Just so happens that the edge of an advancing glacier tends to concentrate meteorites in "stranding surfaces", which makes Antarctica by far the best meteorite hunting on Earth.

Collecting is discouraged around Arizona's Meteor, as the owners of the land claim mineral rights. Many of the big meteorite "strewn fields" on Earth ban hunting.

I like the following links wry commentary on collecting in the US- "With regard to the federal domain, the government claims that, no matter who finds a meteorite on public lands, under an interpretation of the 1906 "Antiquities Act" meteorites belong to the Smithsonian Institution. Not surprisingly, very few meteorites finds are recorded on federal lands..."

[link to www.meteoritemarket.com]

On state or municipal property like parks, laws vary and falls under the realm of rock collecting, where alot of places it permitted but you can't use any digging tools.

I've been collecting and hunting meteorites for decades, it's a fascinating hobby. Alot of our theories about the origins of the solar system and even the composition of the Earth spring from or are confirmed by the study of meteorites!

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