If you found a meteor fragment, would you send it to someone for analysis?
You are walking through the woods and hear a massive boom, you look up and see this ball of fire heading for you and then it explodes. You hit the ground and cover your head. Pieces of it rain down, some still red hot.
Luckily you have a pair of tongs on you and some zip lock baggies handy, just for such an occasion, so you wait for the fragments to cool and bag them up (without touching them).
Looks like you got most of them, the big ones anyway.
You see meteor hunters arriving, all excited, some of them driving impossibly fantastic cars and wearing suits. They have specialized meteor detecting gear on, something that looks like night vision goggles, metal detectors, rubber gloves, and they are all battling for position, checking maps, scanning the area frantically.
Immediately behind them come the army vehicles who quickly surround the area and scare all the collectors away. You melt in with them and exit.
Are you going to send the fragments off to some place to have them examined? LOTS of places want these, they are worth a lot of money to some. A man in Michigan received 8.5 million for his fragment from a collector.
Luckily you have a pair of tongs on you and some zip lock baggies handy, just for such an occasion, so you wait for the fragments to cool and bag them up (without touching them).
Looks like you got most of them, the big ones anyway.
You see meteor hunters arriving, all excited, some of them driving impossibly fantastic cars and wearing suits. They have specialized meteor detecting gear on, something that looks like night vision goggles, metal detectors, rubber gloves, and they are all battling for position, checking maps, scanning the area frantically.
Immediately behind them come the army vehicles who quickly surround the area and scare all the collectors away. You melt in with them and exit.
Are you going to send the fragments off to some place to have them examined? LOTS of places want these, they are worth a lot of money to some. A man in Michigan received 8.5 million for his fragment from a collector.
