An American museum offers 25,000 dollars to anyone bringing the fragment of a fireball that crossed the state of Maine, bordering Canada.
A museum in the state of Maine in the United States is offering a $25,000 reward to the first person who will bring them the fragment of a fireball that crossed the American sky last week.
“Saturday, April 8 … a fireball was seen in the sky in broad daylight,” the Maine Minerals and Gemstone Museum wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
“It is extremely rare for a fireball to be observed during the day; so imagine the brightness it could have had at night”, raises the museum.
A rare event
The meteorite was visible for nearly five minutes from 11:57 a.m. local time on Saturday April 8, according to Nasa. “The projection area should be just north of the town of Waite, Maine to the Canadian border, directly west of Canoose, New Brunswick,” the museum details.
The $25,000 reward is for the first piece of meteorite found weighing at least 1 kilo, but the museum says it is also willing to pay for smaller pieces of debris.
“The Maine woods are not the simplest environment,” Darryl Pitt, head of the museum’s meteorite department, told CNN, noting however that most meteorites fall into the ocean.
“Worldwide, only eight to ten meteorites are recovered each year out of the hundreds observed falling to Earth,” Darryl Pitt continued.
