A fireball landed in the US last week, and now there¡¯s a reward to find it
Finding the fireball: Museum offers $25,000 US for meteorite
Last Saturday, citizens in Calais, Maine, reported seeing a bright meteorite in the sky for over 4 minutes, followed by a loud sonic boom.
NASA confirmed the sighting, calling it the first-ever radar-observed meteor fall in the area.
Now a local museum is offering a reward for finding the meteorite somewhere in the woods between Maine and the Canadian border.
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Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods.
Calling all meteor hunters—a flying fireball landed in Maine that could contain valuable information about the solar system.
A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near the border between the United States and Canada.
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Darryl Pitt, head of the meteorite division at the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, said he was keen to study any fragments of the meteorite, which, depending on the type, could contain valuable information about the origins of the solar system. The $25,000 reward is for the first meteorite piece found that weighs 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) or more. However, he said the museum would be willing to pay for any specimen ¡°irrespective of its size.¡±
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And Darryl Pitt, head of the meteorite division at the museum, said even a small specimen of the rock would be "worth its weight in gold."
The $25,000 US reward is for the first one-kilogram specimen, but even a 10-50 gram piece would be valuable, said Pitt.
"They're important to science [and] they're important to collectors," he said. "Meteorites have become one of the hottest collectibles, I suppose, on Earth."
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Of the estimated 500 meteorites that reach the Earth's surface each year, less than ten are recovered, according to the Planetary Science Institution. This is because most fall into the ocean, land in remote areas, or are not seen to fall (during the night).
What's rare is precious.
"Meteorites that fall to Earth represent some of the original, diverse materials that formed planets billions of years ago," according to NASA. "By studying meteorites, we can learn about early conditions and processes in the solar system's history."
Meteorite fragments can be tricky little buggers to find. They resemble Earth rocks but usually have a burned exterior that can appear shiny.
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A meteorite that fell on a driveway in the United Kingdom in 2021 turned out to be an extremely rare type of space rock and is now part of the Natural History Museum in London.
"There's only approximately 65 meteorites that have been found in Canada. Only one previously in New Brunswick ever. So this would be the second one once it's found."
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