[meteorite-list] Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

[Armando Afonso]

What? He doesn`t sell on ebay? It is lost to science, then.

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

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> Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

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

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> SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A man who found a meteorite in

> Utah is giving it to the public.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> Utah officials believe it could be billions of years

> old. Meteorites originate from comets, asteroids or

> other planets.

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