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Meteorite right

Thai authorities had no right to confiscate a meteorite that landed in a farmer's rice field last month and should give it back, Reuter reports from Bangkok. Legal experts ruled the meteorite was an extra-terrestial object, not a natural resource or buried artefact, and therefore not state property.

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