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Gunnadorah | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Gunnadorah This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: Australia Mass: 19.7 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 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 54:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE GUNNADORAH, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: GUNNADORAH Place of find: 168 yards on a bearing of 08° from the 837-mile post on the Trans-Australian Railway, between Rawlinna and Haig stations, and close to the boundary of Gunnadorah pastoral station. 31°00'S, 125°56'E. Date of find: June, 1968 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 19.7 g Circumstances of find: Found by M.K. Quartermaine, Kalgoorlie School of Mines, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Source: G.J.H. McCall and W.H. Cleverly. 1970. A review of meteorite fords 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. 54, Meteoritics 11, 69-93 (1976)
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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 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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