[meteorite-list] Who owns the meteorite?

From: almitt2 at localnet.com <almitt2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:48:32 -0400
Message-ID: <20100923004832.iw1eehu2tpoo4w4c_at_webmail.localnet.com>

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 <rhartman04 at 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
Received on Thu 23 Sep 2010 12:48:32 AM PDT