- A fragment of Great Salt Lake meteorite, which crashed in on August 2022, is being displayed publicly for the first time.
- A 774-gram fragment is the centerpiece of a new University of Utah exhibit.
- The Great Salt Lake meteorite crash was only the second-of-its-kind in Utah’s history.
SALT LAKE CITY — Every year, James Karner travels to Antarctica as the principal investigator of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites to find and collect meteorites for the whole world to study.
Despite these annual pilgrimages, Karner had never witnessed a meteorite fall.
That was, until the morning of Aug. 13, 2022, when he and many others heard a loud boom echoing across the Salt Lake Valley — the sound of a falling meteorite that eventually crashed into the playa along the Great Salt Lake’s south shore before becoming officially known as the Great Salt Lake meteorite…