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<p>Jerry Cook, chairman of the Eastern Kentucky University physics department, smiles as he holds a 33-pound meteorite from the family of Donna Lewis on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Richmond, Ky. The meteorite was initially found in a cow pasture near Tazewell, Tenn., in the 1930s by Tilmon Brooks, the late grandfather of Donna Lewis, a school secretary in Pineville, Ky. Tests at the University of Tennessee concluded that the meteorite likely came from a known meteorite strike that had first turned up evidence in Tazewell in 1853. (AP Photo/Lexington Herald-Leader, Mark Cornelison)</p>

Jerry Cook, chairman of the Eastern Kentucky University physics department, smiles as he holds a 33-pound meteorite from the family of Donna Lewis on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Richmond, Ky. The meteorite was initially found in a cow pasture near Tazewell, Tenn., in the 1930s by Tilmon Brooks, the late grandfather of Donna Lewis, a school secretary in Pineville, Ky. Tests at the University of Tennessee concluded that the meteorite likely came from a known meteorite strike that had first turned up evidence in Tazewell in 1853. (AP Photo/Lexington Herald-Leader, Mark Cornelison)