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| Basic information | Name: Forrest 002 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1980 Country: Australia Mass:  26 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12401 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L 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 (b) AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: FORREST (b) Synonym: South Forrest Place of find: About 20 miles SW. of Forrest, south of the Trans-Australian railway, Western Australia, Australia. 30°59'S., 127°53'E. Date of find: October 1980 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa26 0, low-Ca pyroxene Fs21 9Wo1.5. Number of individual specimens: Not reported. Total weight: 26 kg, approximately. Circumstances of fall: Found during mineral prospecting on the Nullarbor Plain. Source: W. Zeitschel, D-6450 Hanau. West Germany and A.L. Graham, Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, SW7 51313. Note: The meteorite previously reported as Forrest. an olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5) by G.J.H. McCall and W.H. Cleverly (J. Roy. Soc. West. Austr., 1970, 53, 69) should now be referred to as Forrest (a). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 348 approved meteorites from Western Australia, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 11 impact craters) This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Forrest (b) (In NHM Cat) South Forrest (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||||||||