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

[Michael Farmer]

Great, this is the whacko that wrote a  paper trying to urge that all 
meteorites should be conficated from private owners and given to scientists 
only.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:50 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite hunting : is it legal ?


> LAW OF OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF METEORITES.
> D. G. Schmitt, McEwen, Schmitt & Co. Barristers and
> Solicitors,
> 1615 - 1055 W. Georgia St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
> V6E3R5, email: dgs at marinelawcanada.com
>
> http://www.uark.edu/~meteor/abst37-12supp.html
>
> <http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2001/pdf/5150.pdf>
>
> I'm surprised this paper hasn't been mentioned, yet.
> Usually, by the time I get the Digest version of the
> List's posts most questions have been answered by
> others with quicker access to a keyboard.
>
> ;-)
> Bob V.
>
> ------------- Original Message --------------
>
> [meteorite-list] Meteorite hunting : is it legal ?
> mark ford markf at ssl.gb.com
> Wed Mar 16 09:03:01 EST 2005
>
>
> 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 example)
>
> 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
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