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Hama Sidi Othaman holds up a suspected meteorite in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, on Jan. 29. A self-styled meteorite broker, Sidi Othaman says he has been hunting for meteorites since 2011.

Named after the park where it was found, the Maryborough meteorite weighs 17 kilograms (about 37.5 pounds) and has been identified as an H5 ordinary chondrite. According to Museums Victoria, this ...

Where we were, people had found meteorites before, and it was common—and legal—to sell them. They are worth a lot of money, and Mustafa joked about how much of his wedding he could pay off ...

Eventually, he noticed people were making money from finding and selling small pieces of meteorites, so he figured he should get his giant rock evaluated. We can imagine Mazurek must have been elated ...

Pitt told CNN that only eight to 10 out of the hundreds of meteorites seen falling to Earth each year are recovered. In fact, this same museum offered a $20,000 reward for meteor fragments back in ...

The meteorite hunter admits money is some motivation, but it pales next to the knowledge that can be gained and shared, not to mention the thrill of the hunt itself.