Search for remains of the fallen meteorite in Ohio

A meteorite fell in Ohio on Wednesday, one also fell recently about Germany, a superbolide, or meteors, in astronomy the same object is sometimes called different things depending on what it is doing at that moment, they are small asteroids, small ones of 1 to 3 meters at most, that when entering the Earth's atmosphere begin to burn and if their brightness is intense, like that of Germany, it was seen almost in daylight, it was late afternoon and the latter was seen in full daylight. We do not yet know if it has damaged anything, it was on March 17 and it is estimated that it was a 7-ton asteroid with a diameter of approximately 1.80, it exploded over the skies of Medina County in Ohio and released energy equivalent to 250 tons of TNT at about 48 km high, which was the height at which it exploded. NASA has confirmed that its fragments will have formed meteorites, that is, they will be on the ground. And in fact there are already quite a few meteorite hunters who have approached the area and the hunt for the meteorite has already begun. A day has passed and it is already starting because there are quite important reasons. There are people looking for them because it is a fresh event and also any discovery would have enormous scientific value, but also commercial, that is why they look for them, but be careful, be very careful, if you are going to start looking for meteorites, first I advise you to contact an association to find out how to find them, because obviously it is not easy. If it falls and left a crater and is cool and hot like in this case, it could be, but in other cases it is not easy to start trying to talk to experts, then each country has very different legislation. In Europe the laws are very strict and in the United States it also changes from state to state. In Ohio the thing would be like this, the ownership of the meteorite would be the man who has the land where that meteorite has fallen, what's more, most of the Medina area is private farms, so whoever finds it is not automatically the owner, but rather the owner of the farm.

If you find it on someone else's property, legally the owner is the owner of the land, if it falls on private property it belongs to the owner of the land, but you can always reach an agreement with the owner of the land because the owner may be dedicated to his own things or does not know how to look for meteorites. If you are a fan of meteorites and you go to Ohio to look for these remains that it has left behind, because NASA estimated that this small asteroid had about 7 tons, first you have to locate the owner of the property you want to enter, you have to talk to him, if you convince him, you can reach an agreement, You can record it in writing and if not, what you can do as quickly as possible with your video camera. Once you have this, you can get on the land and play it safe, because if you start trampling on the crop, it won't be worth even a meteorite. I'm sure the owner of the farm will get angry, I guarantee that, walking on the field is a sin, a capital sin for any farmer and I understand it perfectly and then don't deceive the owner of the land because if you sell or analyze it without permission, you can get into very big legal problems.

Advice, meteorites, especially in the United States, have great commercial value, but if they are fresh, like this one, from this event, they also have great value for science, since they can preserve rare isotopes that are not on our planet, that is, atoms with a very peculiar combination that does not exist on our planet, they can also have organic compounds, they can show the intact fusion crust of heat from the entry into the Earth's atmosphere. And if you alter it, the value also drops a lot, the recommendations are, document everything before touching it, take photos of the site, with a scale, a ruler, or if you don't have a ruler, a coin is enough, because by putting the coin next to it you have a reference of the size of that object, of this meteorite, take the exact GPS coordinates, you can do it with your mobile phone, the date and time, the description of the place and the context. All of this is essential to officially classify it and it also increases its value because a meteorite without provenance loses a lot of both monetary value and scientific usefulness. Then, if you touch it, use clean gloves or better tongs or aluminum foil, wrap it, wrap it immediately and leave it wrapped, never touch it with your bare hands because the oils that we have on our hands naturally, the bacteria contaminate and accelerate the oxidation of these pieces, keep it dry and protected, put it in a closed bag with a desiccant, silica packet, always keep it in a cool and dry place. Do not clean it, or cut it, leave the fusion crust because it is interesting or anything that is attached, do not use water, brushes, or anything, leave it as it is, immediately contact local experts, in Ohio, for example, they recommend the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, It is the ideal place because they also have experience with the subject of meteorites or send data to the meteorite society, Meteoritical.org There in the United States this association for the issue of meteorites. If it is valuable, you can donate a sample to a museum and keep the rest, this does not mean losing value, you will not be losing value if you later want to sell it, because what you do by giving a sample to a museum or a scientific entity, You are really increasing the legitimacy and value of that meteorite, because then those scientists are going to analyze it and can discover very interesting things, with which you are giving more personality to that object, it would no longer be a vulgar meteorite, it would be a meteorite with a scientific study behind it, which multiplies its value. And of course, remember that all this is in plural because you have reached an agreement with the owner of the land, do not sell it, nor publish it without official documentation and classification, nor having previously agreed with the owner of the land, of course and do not send it to NASA, at NASA they are saturated with supposed meteorites, they have enough to create a great pyramid of Giza with all the rocks that they send, it is better the Cleveland Museum of Natural History would be the ideal place to go in Ohio. The same applies to meteorites found in your region, in your country, etc., local or national natural history museums are the main guarantors of the scientific value of that meteorite, of that piece.

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