A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock
The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is looking for meteorites from a rare fireball event near the Maine-Canada border. It's willing to pay anyone who can find them.
by Rachel Treisman
Apr 13, 2023
2 minutes
A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. Experts hoping to study the meteorite are now offering a financial reward to anyone who can recover a piece of it.
NASA says this was the first radar-observed meteorite fall ever seen in Maine. Shortly before noon on Saturday, seeing a bright fireball over New Brunswick,
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