It's meteorite season: Maine museum offers $25,000 US for 'fireball' fragments

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Pitt said meteorites are often black with slight indentations. This meteorite pictured is part of Roberto Vargas’s collection and was found in Junction City, Ga. The piece weighs 24.7 grams. (Submitted by Roberto Vargas)

What would you do for $25,000 US? If your answer is running through the woods searching for a one-kilogram meteorite — you’re in luck.

The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel, Maine, is willing to pay that — or more — for a piece of the “fireball” that people in New Brunswick and Maine spotted falling from the sky over the weekend.

NASA has since identified

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