{"id":1920,"date":"2023-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/meteorites-hit-maine-museum-offers-25k-reward-fragments\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:00:00","slug":"meteorites-hit-maine-museum-offers-25k-reward-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/meteorites-hit-maine-museum-offers-25k-reward-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorites hit Maine, museum offers $25K reward for fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"
Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine’s border with Canada<\/a>, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground \u2014 just waiting to be picked up.<\/p>\n If you’re the first person to find a big one, a museum says it’ll pay out a $25,000 reward.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n NASA CONFIRMS HALF-TON METEOR CRASHED IN SOUTH TEXAS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n NASA says four radar sweeps detected “signatures consistent with falling meteorites seen at the time and location reported by eyewitnesses,” and people also heard sonic booms. It’s the first time radar spotted a meteorite fall in Maine<\/a>, the space agency said.<\/p>\n The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum wants to add to its collection, which includes moon and Mars rocks, Pitt said, so the first meteorite hunters to deliver a 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) specimen will claim the $25,000 prize. That could be about the size of a softball.<\/p>\n “With more people having an awareness, the more people will look \u2014 and the greater the likelihood of a recovery,” Pitt said Wednesday.<\/p>\n A Maine museum is offering a $25,000 reward to anyone who can locate and return a meteorite specimen from a Saturday afternoon shower over the Canadian border weighing a kilogram or more.<\/span> <\/p>\n Pitt said that because the descent was spotted by radar, he\u2019s confident meteorites can be found on the ground.<\/p>\n Still, there’s no guarantee there are any meteorites big enough to claim the payout.<\/p>\n NASA said on its website that the “meteorite masses calculated from the radar signatures range from 0.004 pounds to 0.7 pounds although larger masses may have fallen.”<\/p>\n The meteorites likely impacted across a swath of ground spanning from the town of Waite, Maine, to Canoose, New Brunswick. According to NASA, the largest specimens will be strewn at the west end of the debris field, closest to Waite \u2014 about a 3 1\/2 hour drive from Portland.<\/p>\n KANSAS NIGHT SKY LIT UP BY ‘SMALL SWARM OF METEORS’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Locating a softball-sized space rock in the wilderness may be similar to finding a needle in a haystack: Pitt said the estimated area where the meteorites hit is about a mile wide and stretches for 10-12 miles, all the way into Canada.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n