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| Basic information | Name: Forrest 001 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1967 Country: Australia Mass:  97.7 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11077 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 68:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE FORREST, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: FORREST Place of find: Between six and seven miles ENE of Forrest station on the Trans-Australian Railway, Western Australia. 30°49'S, 128°13'E. Date of find: October-November, 1967 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 97.7 g Circumstances of find: Found by A.J. Carlisle, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Source: G.J.H. McCall and W.H. Cleverly. 1970. A review of meteorite finds on the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, including a description of thirteen new finds of stony meteorites. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 53, 69-80. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 68, Meteoritics 25, 59-70 (1990)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 347 approved meteorites from Western Australia, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 11 impact craters) This is 1 of 717 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Forrest (a) (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||