[meteorite-list] Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

[Mike Groetz]

http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8245978&nav=menu554_2_3

Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

Associated Press - April 29, 2008 6:25 PM ET 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A man who found a meteorite in
Utah is giving it to the public.

The 18-pound Gunlock Meteorite is the size of a
bowling ball and now on display at the Utah Department
of Natural Resources in Salt Lake City.

Don Adair of Boise, Idaho, found it near Gunlock, a
southern Utah town, in 1982. He says the black color
made it stand out like a big bandage on a sore thumb.

He sawed it in half and gave a portion to the American
Museum of Natural History in New York. Adair recently
decided to give the other half to Utah.

Utah officials believe it could be billions of years
old. Meteorites originate from comets, asteroids or
other planets.




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