Ownership of meteorites is pretty clear in United States law. The owner of a meteorite is the land owner. If one falls on my land it is mine. If one falls on your land it is yours. If one falls on federal land it belongs to the Smithsonian. So if one lands in a school yard it must belong to the school. Other countrys may have different law. Cheers Steve Dunklee
On Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 12:48 AM EDT almi...@localnet.com wrote: >Hi Ron and all, > >If this is going to be the case, if you get a permit to hunt federal lands >then you are being granted a lease to hunt and all material should belong to >the finder then. Perhaps this is an interpatation of the law we can live with. > >--AL Mitterling > >Quoting R N Hartman <rhartma...@earthlink.net>: > >> So regarding the article, in essence this interpretation is saying that if >> you have a lease on land at which time a meteorite lands on it, you have >> legal rights to it. But you must have the lease, not be wandering down a >> public road or across a school yard, or even being on a dry lake or the open >> desert. Yes?? >> >> Ron Hartman > > >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
