[meteorite-list] Meteorite hunting : is it legal ?

[mark ford]

Yes but..

I bet 90% of material in our collections was collected from land owned
by someone else, or not declared 

(I bet most of the PF's collected in the streets weren't declared to the
US government, for exapmple)

It just goes with the territory, most geological specimens are extracted
from sites, without the owners permission, we probably wouldn't have the
science of geology at all if people had thought twice about collecting
rocks.

The alternative is few meteorites for sale at high prices and next to
none available for research, that would do no-one any good!


Rescue it from the deserts before it disappears I say!

MF