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Forrest 015
Basic information Name: Forrest 015
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1990
Country: Australia
Mass:help 82 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 75  (1993)  H4
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H4
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
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Writeup from MB 75:
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Forrest 014 and 015

Nullarbor, Western Australia, Australia

Found 1990

Research material, classification and analysis (Table 3), Charles F. Lewis, Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. PTS, petrologic type and weathering grade, F. Wlotzka, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie, D-55020 Mainz, Germany. Information and main mass, Blaine Reed, 907 County Road 207, #17, Durango, 81301 Colorado, USA.

Data from:
  MB75
  Table 3
  Line 2:
Date:1990
Latitude:30°47'S
Longitude:127°48'E
Mass (g):82
Class:H4
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):19.2
Classifier:Charles F. Lewis, Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. PTS, petrologic type and weathering grade, F. Wlotzka, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie, D-55020 Mainz, Germany. Information, Blaine Reed, 907 County Road 207, #17, Durango, 81301 Colorado, USA
Main mass:Blaine Reed, 907 County Road 207 #17 Durango 81301 Colorado USA
Institutions
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Mainz: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015)
Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 75, Meteoritics 28, 692-703 (1993)
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Geography:

Australia
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (30° 47'S, 127° 48'E)
     Recommended::   (30° 47'S, 127° 48'E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 348 approved meteorites from Western Australia, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 11 impact craters)
     This is 1 of 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters)
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