The Great Meteor Grab

From the article, however, the regulations that are being discussed are for meteorites on federal lands.

From the article:

Courts have long established that meteorites belong to the owner of the surface estate. Therefore, meteorites found on public lands are part of the BLM?s surface estate, belong to the federal government, and must be managed as natural resources in accordance with the FLPMA of 1976."

In this case, I'm thinking that claiming that these changes will somehow apply to asteroids in space is a very long stretch. Especially since they don't apply to the significant volume of privately owned land in this country, let alone the rest of the world.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/6pLEdeIbfHE/the-great-meteor-grab

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