[meteorite-list] Who owns the meteorite?

[almitt2 at 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