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Aletai. Iron meteorite - 40.9 g
The world’s first and largest iron meteorite (74 T) was discovered in Aletai County, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in July 2011. The local government took it away under the pretext of “protection.”
A year and a half later, the meteorite discoverers — Hailati Ayisa and Jiaerheng Habudehai, two Kazakh guides — decided to challenge the government. Once deposited, it could become the first case concerning the ownership of space articles, reported Southern Weekly. The pastoralists who found the meteorite also claimed its ownership, further complicating matters.
All three parties claimed to be the first discoverers of the iron meteorite. It will not be easy for the judicial authorities to render a correct verdict because Chinese civil law does not follow the theory of “first possession” of property, which states that ownership of something is justified by the person who asserts it before anyone else does.
Hailati hails from Qinghe County in Aletai, the place where China’s largest iron meteorite, the “Silver Camel,” was found. He was passionate about meteorites and had befriended sheep trader Jiaerheng while doing business.
In April 2011, Hailati received a call from another meteorite enthusiast. The man told Hailati that they were looking for a meteorite on a pasturage at Aletai and hoped he would join the search.
A team of nine meteorite enthusiasts then set out to find the supposed object from space. Zhang Baolin, a meteorite expert from the Beijing Planetarium, and meteorite collector Lei Kesi were among them. The search, however, proved unsuccessful. Before the nine men dispersed, they reached a verbal agreement with Hailati and Jiaerheng for them to continue the search.
"Zhang Baolin said we would probably receive a large reward if we found it and informed the government," Hailati said. Living an ordinary life, Hailati and Jiaerheng saw the search as an opportunity that could change their destinies.
June 17, 2011, turned out to be the day they found the meteorite. "It was a gift from the Lord, I thought our lives would be different," Jiaerheng told Southern Weekly.
They immediately informed the seven remaining meteorite fans, but received no reply. However, a few days later they learned from the Beijing Planetarium that the man they had informed had reported the discovery to the Chinese Academy of Sciences as his “first discoverer.”
Beijing Planetarium experts tried to calm them by saying, “We know you both found it,” and issued them a certificate shortly afterward.
On July 16, 2011, the meteorite was officially confirmed as the fourth largest iron meteorite in the world and turned out to be part of the same meteoroid as the “Silver Camel.”
However, the local government removed the iron meteorite from the pasture as soon as possible, claiming they simply wanted to ensure better protection of the meteorite.
It also denied that Hailati and Jiaerheng were the first discoverers of the iron meteorite, asserting that the Secretary of the Party in Aletai, Sun Jianguo, had already spotted it in 2004. But there was no evidence for this claim. According to Zhang Min, lawyer for Hailati and Jiaerheng, no government had a legal basis to seize, seize, or retain meteorites.
As for their reward, the local government agreed to give Hailati and Jiaerheng only 5,000 yuan each (about $802) due to their “touching conduct.” Nevertheless, the two men deemed the reward insufficient and refused the offer.
Meteorite collector Lei Kesi argued that "Beijing Planetarium and I paid Hailati and Jiaerheng for their help." He thought they had been hired to assist in the search, so they should not claim ownership. Hailati and Jiaerheng denied this particular relationship but admitted they had received a small sum from the Beijing Planetarium during their last search.
Yet, unexpectedly, pastoral entrepreneurs Juman and Kenjiebieke Remazan now claimed that they had actually discovered the iron meteorite as early as 1986 and therefore also claimed its ownership.
Under the Chinese system of land procurement transactions, pastoral entrepreneurs can only obtain rights and interests in the pasture itself, and since meteorites are not generated by the pasture, the Remazan brothers should not hold the meteorite, Meng Qinguo, a professor of law at Wuhan University, stated.
In fact, some scientists had already proposed legalizing government ownership of meteorites eight years ago, but the project had somehow stalled. Meteorite enthusiast Liu Xin told newspapers that it takes a lot of time and money to find a meteorite,
"Finders will be hurt if their hard-to-find meteorites are simply taken by the government."
"I hope that the laws can encourage individuals to discover more meteorites and benefit both the country and the discoverer," Liu Xin said.
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