[meteorite-list] Gauteng: State declares ownership before meteorite is found

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:09 +0100 (CET)
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One really wonders if this approach offers sufficcient incentive to initiate
recovery efforts:

Eyewittness News:
Meteor belongs to the state
Gia Nicolaides The Astronomical Society of South Africa said on Wednesday a
meteor had no monetary value and belonged to the state where it landed.
Dozens of people claimed the meteor spotted over Gauteng at the weekend landed
on their property.
The astronomical society's Tim Cooper said even if it landed on someone's
property, they did not own it.
"By law in this country any meteorite which hits the ground belongs to the
state. So it will be given over to the universities to study its origins and its
characteristics, after that it will become property of the state so somebody who
finds this object will not be able top keep it," said Cooper.
The fireball lit up the skies and was seen travelling from Johannesburg to the
north of Pretoria at about 11pm on Saturday.
As yet no one has found the rock.
Source: http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=27202

Best regards

Svend



drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> hat am 25. November 2009 um 00:21 geschrieben:

> Dear List,
>? ?I have just posted two videos from the Gauteng 21Nov09 Fireball in South
>Africa.
> South Africa Meteor/Meteorite News- Gauteng Meteor 21NOV09 Videos 24NOV09:
>
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/11/south-africa-meteormeteorite-news.html
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Meteor/Meteorite News- 24NOV09
>
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/11/meteormeteorite-news-24nov09.html
>
> More Eyewitness accounts of the meteor
> Jacaranda 94.2
> Botswana- These Meteorite created a complete daylight effect as far as I could
> see, except it was like a quartz halogen pure white light, which gradually
> faded to a ...
>
> Probe underway into Gauteng meteor sighting
> Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
> Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor on Monday requested detailed
> information about the meteor that passed over Gauteng at the weekend. ...
>
> Meteor lights up night sky
> Citizen
> JOHANNESBURG - Amateur astronomers are star-struck with the possibility that a
> meteorite might have crashed to earth somewhere in South Africa on Saturday
> ...
>
> Gauteng abuzz after meteor sighting
> Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
> Eyewitness News has also received reports of the meteor being spotted as far
> as Botswana. "There was a very bright explosion, where the sky lit up as if it
> ...
>
> Search on for alleged meteorite
> Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
> Amateur astronomists across Gauteng said on Monday they were focussing their
> search for an alleged meteorite, which allegedly plummeted to earth on
> Saturday ...
>
> Meteor/Meteorite News- 23NOV09:
>
> Meteorite lights up Gauteng sky
> Times LIVE
> Amazed Johannesburg and Pretoria residents could hardly believe their eyes
> when a "five-second lightning flash", thought to be a meteorite, lit up the
> night ...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Meteor/Meteorite News- Gauteng, South Africa 21NOV09 Meteor 22NOV09:
>
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/11/meteormeteorite-news-22nov09.html
>
> Meteor lights up Gauteng
> Times LIVE
> It was a meteor which lit up the skies over Johannesburg and Pretoria on
> Saturday night, an astronomer has confirmed. The Leonid meteor shower in
> Thailand ...
>
>
> Meteor believed to be spotted in Gauteng
> Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
> Johannesburg and Pretoria residents have come forward, claiming they spotted a
> meteor in the skies on Saturday night. People in Gauteng saw the bright light
> ...
>
> Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
>
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Received on Wed 25 Nov 2009 05:00:09 AM PST