fireball landed in the US, and now there is a reward for finding it

A space rock that shot across the sky last week before crashing close to the Canadian border is being offered for sale by a museum in Maine for $25,000.

Radar picked up the fireball, which was audible in the daytime and produced a sonic boom, enabling NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Lab to determine the "strewn field" — where pieces of the meteor may be recovered.

Head of the meteorite division of the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum Darryl Pitt expressed interest in studying any meteorite fragments that may hold important knowledge about the solar system. The first discovered meteorite fragment weighing 2.2 pounds (1 kilogramme) or greater is eligible for a $25,000 award. Regardless of size, the museum would be willing to purchase any specimen.

Although thinly populated, it is not as sparsely populated as the region where most meteorites usually crash,

Out of the hundreds of meteorites spotted falling to Earth each year, only eight to ten are ever found worldwide.

An incredibly rare sort of space rock was discovered in a meteorite that fell on a driveway in the United Kingdom in 2021, and it is now a part of the Natural History Museum in London.