EKU Given Meteorite Found in the 1930s By Greg Kocher, Lexington Herald-Leader • Oct 22, 2012 ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ Email George and Donna Lewis of Bell County presented the meteorite to Jerry Cook, chairman of EKU's Physics and Astronomy department. "My precious," Cook gushed about the rock. Lexington Herald-Leader As a child, Donna Lewis remembered her grandfather using a 33-pound oblong rock as a doorstop by the front door. Later, after her grandfather, Tilmon Brooks, died in the 1990s and the rock came into her possession, Lewis used it as an ornament in her flower bed near Pineville in Bell County. Later, her husband took the rock to universities where it was confirmed to be a meteorite, the remains of a meteor or "shooting star" that crashed into the earth. View the discussion thread.
