The museum probably bought it from the land owners, who were at the time a logging concern, if memory serves. Isn't this the same meteorite where a neighbor found the meteorite on the other guy's property, and spent about a year carving a road to it and dragging it back onto his land so he could make money from its exhibit? The original landowners took him to court, and the judge ruled that unless the guy who moved it could pay the logging company compensation for its value, he'd have to give it back. Don't know if he also had to give back the money he'd been earning from showing it. I also think this was the first time a large value had been placed on a meteorite (about $10,000)
I vaguely recall reading this in the infamous Rocks from Space. If anyone can clear up details I got wrong (and I probably made a lot of errors), please feel free. Tracy Latimer ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
