[meteorite-list] Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah
Mike Jensen
meteoriteplaya at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 12:50:10 EDT 2008
Hi All
Here is an article with a nice image of the stone;
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695274956,00.html
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Mike
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Mike Jensen
Jensen Meteorites
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Mike Groetz <mpg444 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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