Noted: The owner of the possible meteorite did not want to go on camera, but she did tell Local 5 that she had to shut off her phone because so many people were calling with questions, and wanting to buy it. She did collect the fragments from the snow and will be donating them for research at the University of Wisconsin. “We can can learn huge amounts from small pieces of rock like this,” said Professor John Valley, a faculty member and Geoscience Researcher at UW-Madison.
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