An "incredibly rare" fireball flew over Maine – and now a museum is offering $25,000 for a piece
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Did you see the fireball that flew across Maine's skies over the weekend? If you did, it could be beneficial to try to remember its path, as a local museum is offering thousands of dollars for a piece of it.
On Monday, the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, announced that it's offering a $25,000 reward for a kilogram of the meteorite, which was seen cutting across the sky in New Brunswick, Canada, on Saturday just before noon "in broad daylight." According to the museum, "multiple sonic booms" from the fireball could be heard in Maine. NASA Doppler radar detected multiple meteorites from that time, the museum said.
"There was an extraordinary event that happened in Washington County," the museum wrote on Facebook Wednesday. "A fireball was spotted streaking through the sky — during the day!"
