A spectacular fireball that was spotted streaking through the northern sky might be the golden ticket to a reward of at least $25,000 for a lucky person if they can stumble across remnants of a meteorite.
"When a fireball is sufficiently bright to be seen in broad daylight, it would have been extraordinarily bright had this been at night. The existence of positive doppler radar returns-meteorites detected descending through the atmosphere just several miles above ground – assures us there are meteorites waiting to be found," said Darryl Pitt, the chair of the meteorite division at the museum.the event was the first recorded time a radar observed meteor materials falling over the state.
Planetary experts estimate only 500 meteorites reach the surface of the Earth each year, with less than a dozen that are ever recovered. The museum, which has the world’s most extensive collection of meteorites, is looking for at least 2.2 pounds of material from the latest event but will consider a reward for any sized specimen., but likely due to the state’s forested terrain, the reward went uncollected, with no pieces ever publicly acknowledged to have ever been found.
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