STOCKHOLM — A Swedish land owner won a legal battle Thursday to keep a 14-kilogram meteorite when an appeals court ruled that such rocks should be considered “immovable property" and part of the land where they are found.
. In December of that year, two geologists found it and eventually handed it over to the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Swedish capital. On Thursday, the appeals court said the iron meteorite “is made up of substances that are already present in the earth’s surface." Judge Robert Green said that meteorites or space rocks should be considered “part of immovable property just like other stones, even though it may intuitively feel like it is something foreign to the earth.”
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