[meteorite-list] Idaho man gives meteorite to Utah

From: mckinney trammell <bigpineartifacts_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:57:48 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <802442.20091.qm_at_web53209.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

hmmm...4.5 billion years old, eh? i dunno- i think
this may be the only skyrock in the world to be 4.5
billion years old and not 4.6.
--- Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
> Here is an article with a nice image of the stone;
>
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695274956,00.html
>
> --
> Mike
> --
> Mike Jensen
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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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