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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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