[meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

[Eric Wichman]

For the record...

The landowners dropped the case because it was a PR nightmare for them 
because the Doctors and the Smithsonian pulled bogus and shameful 
tactics using the media and the Haitian Earthquake Crisis against the 
landowners and merely appealed to the public's emotion on the issue 
simply making them out to be the bad guys in the media if they continued 
to fight it. "Oh what bad people these greedy landowners must be to try 
to take away the meteorite from the public, and the money from those in 
need in Haiti." Oh my...

They didn't drop the case because "the doctors were right". They dropped 
it because of the negative press and smear campaign played out in the 
media by the Doctors and the Smithsonian. Simple as that.

This "Case" was never decided on legally in a court. Therefore the issue 
is still open and *unresolved* with regard to the legal ownership of 
meteorites falling on private property.

Period.

Regards,
Eric



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