Family stunned after 激しく揺する they used as a DOORSTOP turns out to be a four-billion-year-old meteorite

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Eastern Kentucky University has acquired a 33-続けざまに猛撃する meteorite from an eastern Tennessee family that used the space 激しく揺する as a doorstop and flower bed ornament over the years.

The meteorite was 最初 設立する in a cow pasture 近づく Tazewell, Tennessee, in the 1930s by Tilmon Brooks, the late grandfather of Donna 吊りくさび, a school 長官 in Pineville, Kentucky.

実験（する）s at the University of Tennessee 結論するd that the meteorite likely （機の）カム from a known meteorite strike that had first turned up 証拠 in Tazewell in 1853.

Pride and joy

Pride and joy: Jerry Cook, chairman of the Eastern Kentucky University physics department, beams as he shows off the 33-続けざまに猛撃する meteorite from the 吊りくさび family

EKU's Department of Physics and Astronomy Chairman, Jerry Cook, 発表するd that the meteorite would makes its debut at the Kentucky 学院 of Science 年次の 会議／協議会 on campus over the 週末.

Cook said the meteorite, which the university 購入（する）d from the 吊りくさびs, will be used for 教育の and outreach 目的s, a fact that pleases the former owners most of all.

The 激しく揺する is 概算の to be more than 4 and a half billion years old.

'I saw how excited kids at our school got when they saw it,' said Donna 吊りくさび, who 作品 for Pineville 独立した・無所属 Schools.

'It's good to know that Eastern will keep it in one piece and students will be able to 熟考する／考慮する it.'

Gift

Gift: Donna and George 吊りくさび (left to 中心) 現在の Jerry Cook (権利) with the 古代の meteorite they had 以前 used as a doorstop

Cook does not believe the Tazewell meteorite is 関係のある to the large meteor strike that carved a four-mile-wide 噴火口，クレーター where nearby Middlesboro, Kentucky, now sits.

Cook believes the meteorite to be the second largest (known) meteorite from the Tazewell strike. The first, he said, 重さを計るd だいたい 100 続けざまに猛撃するs.

'We don't want to lock it up somewhere,' Cook said. 'We want kids to be able to touch it, 解除する it, and understand what it is. Part of our 職業 is to get kids 利益／興味d in science, and this will 動かす their curiosity.'

Intrigue

Intrigue: Rodney 'Buzz' Piercey, a professor of physics and astronomy at Eastern Kentucky University, takes a の近くに look at the meteorite, that likely （機の）カム from a known meteorite strike in 1853

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