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| Basic information | Name: Gnowangerup This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: Australia Mass:  33.6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 338 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 61:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE GNOWANGERUP, AUSTRALIA, IRON METEORITE Name: GNOWANGERUP Place of find: 9 km SE. of Gnowangerup, Western Australia, Australia. 34°0'S., 118°6'E. Date of find: 1976 Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite (IIIA). 8.59% Ni, 20 ppm Ga, 44 ppm Ge and -- 1 ppm Ir. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 33.6 kg Circumstances of find: Found by a group of road-workers who were picking up stones to face a road culvert. Recognized as a meteorite by G.E.P. Welland. The specimen is now in the Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia. Source: J.R. de Laeter, School of Physics and Geosciences, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 61, Meteoritics 18, 77-83 (1983)
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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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