On the flip side, money is a great motivator. Being able to collect and sell metorites probably drives a lot more finds and interest overall. I agree that it's

On the flip side, money is a great motivator. Being able to collect and sell metorites probably drives a lot more finds and interest overall. I agree that it's nice to donate them to science, but many of the meteorites in private collections would have never been discovered in a world where the government owns them all, so the current system doesn't seem so bad to me.