Seeing the Mokoia meteorite fall

This letter to the Wanganui Herald describes the fall of the Mokoia meteorite in 1908 by ‘One Who Saw It’.

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Reference: Wanganui Herald, 27 November 1908

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David Thomas Brind
21 April 2022

I recently found a meteorite that must have been the size of a mini minor as it made a crater about two hundred metres long and eighty metres wide.it landed,long ago on the side of a hill where it gouged a crater and bulldozed a lot of earth in front of it.This crater has a percussion bulb in a central position and there is a good possibility of tectites as the soil is mostly sand.Am I allowed to retrieve this object as a personal souvenir?As it hit sand the depth should be less than three metres

Eleanor
03 September 2017

I found black like rock I think it maybe meterite I got it on westcoast beach last year where can i get it tested and will it cost

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