How to Meteorite

Should you one day hear a tremendous crash, feel the house shake, and find a hole in your roof, with the air smelling of sulfurous rotten eggs and soot, congratulations! You just won the space lottery. You're the lucky owner of a meteorite, you lucky earth slob, you.  

It happened to a couple in New Jersey in 2024, when an asteroid came through the atmosphere at 32,000 mph.  It created a sonic boom and a fireball seen by people in several states.  NASA  had expected the whole works would burn up on its fiery descent, but au contraire.  Enough of it survived vaporization to blast through said couple's roof and dump several rocks onto their bed. Which fortunately they had already vacated.

You can't ever be too sure a meteorite won't come hurtling into your life, so be prepared.  After it lands, don't go running out into the street and start yelling about your space rock. Keep quiet and treat the area like the top-secret extraterrestrial crash site that it is.  You don't want your neighbors putting their grubby paws all over it. Get the large, clean, empty glass jar you have on hand for just this purpose, and collect and secure the debris, including every speck of dust you can find. 

A rock freshly spewed from space is the purest relic of the cosmos a NASA egghead could hope for.  It hasn't had a chance to get contaminated by our stank-ass world.  But most meteorites that don't burn up land where no one can find them, or are only discovered after they've been stankified by earth elements. So seal that jar tightly and do all you can to preserve it.  Because science.  (And there could be a cash payout.) But mostly, science!