Well, if The State had used the "touched the
Earth" argument to weasel out of State liability
but still claim the stone, yes, you could counter-
claim ownership if you caught it before it landed.
But you'd have to be careful to never drop it
outdoors, because at that moment, it would
become the property of The State!
Back in the real world, meteorite laws are
few and vague and meteorite court cases
are scarce indeed. In this reality, the State
is usually successful in asserting whatever
they wish to assert.
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yinan Wang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock,not
meteorite'
"Then, on the bounce, it touches the Earth and becomes the Property of
The State."
So if a meteoroid embeds itself into your car, or you catch it before
it hits the ground (ya, improbable as it seems), or if bounces off a
cow and you catch it, does it belong to you now since it did not
become a meteorite?
- YvW
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Sterling K. Webb
<[email protected]> wrote:
Any lawyer could argue his way out of this
dilema with one simple slip. The "meteorite,"
while falling, is a meteoroid, not a meteorite,
hence it is under God's jurisdiction.
You, your car, your house, your dead dog
(or cow) are not the Earth. The meteorite only
becomes a meteorite when it touches the
Earth, after killing you, perforating your
car, smashing your house, or killing your
dog. Then, on the bounce, it touches the
Earth and becomes the Property of The State.
No harm, no fault. Hand it over, please.
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Martin Altmann"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock,
not
meteorite'
Interesting thought Martin...
I wonder what their position would be regarding a meteorite (that
belonged
to the state) hitting and injuring/killing somebody?
Graham, UK
---- Martin Altmann <[email protected]> wrote:
"A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
Because those people finding real meteorites, lunars and Martians
aren't
coming to Australia. :-(
Why?
Because: "if it was
a meteor it belongs to the WA Government".
Other question, would WA Government have paid the fixing of the
roof, if
it
would have been a meteorite?
I mean, then the damage would have caused by a property of the
state,
wouldn't it?
Martin
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Jeff
Kuyken
Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. April 2010 16:35
An: meteorite list
Betreff: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock,not
meteorite'
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/museum-investigates-meteori
te-claims/story-e6frg1ac-1225837470139
Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'
SCIENTISTS investigating claims a meteor fragment the size of a
cricket
ball
collided into a WA house have confirmed it was almost certainly a
rock.
The
object hit the roof of the home about 4pm on Thursday in the
north-eastern
Perth suburb of Beechboro.
A female occupant thought it was a meteor.
The WA Museum today said the object may have fallen from a plane
lowering
its landing gear.
The museum's head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Dr Alex Bevan,
yesterday
inspected the object, which he did not suspect was from outer space.
"Alex did have a look at some photos of the object, but when he did
look
at
it in person, he did not think it was from a meteorite," a museum
spokesperson said.
"Sometimes rocks get caught in the wheels of planes and as they are
lowering
their gear they may fall, we just don't know."
Perth Observatory said it had received a "couple of reports" on
Thursday
night from people phoning to say they had seen a light in the sky.
"At this stage no one seems to be able to put it all together, but
if it
was
a meteor it belongs to the WA Government, observatory astronomer
Ralph
Martyn said.
"The reports at this stage are very sketchy."
He said the observatory was waiting to inspect a photograph of the
object.
"A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
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