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It is the size of a bowling ball but heavier, tumbled from space, and is believed to be about 4.5 billion years old. Now, the Gunlock Meteorite is on display at the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore, 1594 West North Temple, in Salt Lake City.
Geologist Don Adair found the Gunlock Meteorite, so named because it was found near the town of Gunlock in southern Utah, on June 22, 1982. "The black meteorite stood out like a big bandage on a sore thumb." He found the rock on a slope of contrasting light-gray-coloured limestone. He also found a smaller piece about 50 yards away that fit together with the first, indicating that the space rock broke probably on impact.

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A man who found a meteorite in Utah is giving it to the public.
The 1smile.gifound 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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The 4.5 billion-year-old Gunlock meteorite, recently acquired by the Utah Geological Survey, is now on display at the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore, 1594 W. North Temple.
Idaho geologist Don Adair found the meteorite in 1982.
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