Space race! Meteorites hit Maine, museum offers $25K reward

 

April 12, 2023



PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up.

If you're the first person to find a big one, a museum says it'll pay out a $25,000 reward.

The unusually bright fireball could be seen in broad daylight around noon Saturday, said Darryl Pitt, chair of the meteorite division at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel.

NASA says four radar sweeps detected "signatures consistent with falling meteorites seen at the time and location reported by...



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