The pettiness of the PNG bureaucrats is quite remarkable.....there was
a snowball's chance in hell that the PNG authorities would have even launched
a similar discovery/recovery mission, hence to whine about the Harvard team
having the "wrong visa" is laughable.
I have a sizeable meteorite that was recovered in Western Australia in the late
1960's, thankfully before their Museum Act of 1969: an act which declares ALL meteorites subsequently recovered in WA are property of the crown.
Yeah right...as if you'd spend the time and expense of scouring the desert for meteorites and if you got lucky, hand them over gratis.
Hence the expression: possession is 9/10th's of the law
