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Three meteorite recoveries in 10 days — a rate scientists say normally takes an entire year

Sometime in late May 2026, a meteorite hunter in the United States picked up a freshly fallen space rock, marking the third confirmed recovery in just 10 days. The pace floored members of the ...
The Spokesman-Review

Meet the Pennsylvania man who hunts meteorites for a living

PHILADELPHIA – Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his ...
Los Angeles Times

Riches from outer space lure meteor hunters to the Sahara Desert

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars. The government legalized meteorite exports in 2020, ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth

MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a ...