True, but there's nothing like the possibility of a buck to bring out the masses. It's too bad they only have a couple of days or weeks at most to search before the snow halts the rocky quest. I wonder if these things will be easy to identify after sitting under the snow all winter? Regardless, we should be hearing the preliminary identification in the next few days with the samples they have.

Regardless, the more of these things we can get into the hands of students, the more educational 'value' we can extract from the the rocks. The fact that the debris field was located so quickly, that they are fresh, and that the event was widely observed and reported only increases the educational value of the 'event'.

Of course, it's not as good as a meteoritic debris fall over Washington DC, and a meteor through the roof of the Lincoln bedroom and smoldering in Lincoln's bed, but I'll take it anyways. It could have been a lot worse. We were wondering why we haven't seen more of these things over the decades, but now we know that altitude has something to do with it, many hit the oceans, and the observing and reporting capabilities just haven't been up to par. That has dramatically changed.

The Peru impact has greatly advanced our understanding already.