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also, another factor, people stopped donating meteors to the museum as they became more sought after and worth money and a collectors market evolved, sometimes involving lots of money, 100 000's of thousands of dollars for certain rarer ones, there was one stolen from a private owner in NSW somewhere last year, that was worth a mill? au made the news i remember. So the musuems didnt want to pay 300 000 dollars for something they used to get for free, i think is a big part , same as fossils i think
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