The B612 Foundation is raising money for their asteroid finding space observatory by selling memorabilia from Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Shuttle/ISS astronaut Ed Lu:
Here is a new video message from Ed Lu: Ed Lu’s Message: Why You Should Support Sentinel – B612 Foundation
That strange rock you come across might be from outer space : Farmers’ Rock Turns Out to Be Rare Meteorite | Arlington, Minn. Meteorite – Space.com
On May 30, the couple brought their find to Alexander’s lab and allowed him to chip 0.02 ounces (0.6 grams) off the edge of it for analysis under a scanning electron microscope. The rock was iron, and contained about 8 percent nickel — a telltale giveaway. Iron objects on Earth contain almost no nickel, but iron rocks from space are usually between 5 and 20 percent nickel. The microscope also revealed what’s called a Widmanstätten pattern of nickel-iron crystals that’s unique to meteorites
A part of the meteorite that came from the great fireball over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia back in February has been found at the bottom of a lake: Huge Chunk of Meteorite Located in Urals Lake – RIA Novosti
A Massachusetts man found a rock by a river near his house that turned out to be ballast from a Soviet/Russian spacecraft, possibly the Mir space station:
Heritage Auctions is holding a fine minerals auction on June 2nd that includes meteorites, one of which originated on Mars: Mars Meteorite May Fetch $160,000 At Auction – Space.com.