You're lying in bed when a piece of a meteorite enters the Earth's atmosphere and flies through the window of your apartment, landing at your feet.
A) Your apartment complex has a right to claim the property because it landed on their land.
B) You may keep the property because of the rule of first possession.
C) You and your apartment complex must share the property as equal co-owners.
D) The government can exercise its right of eminent domain and claim the property for the good of the public.
E) The property must be turned over to police and cannot be claimed until 60 days have passed.

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The rule of first possession is that the first person to reduce previously unowned things to possession becomes their owner.

You're Lying in Bed When a Piece of a Meteorite