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Laundry East
Basic information Name: Laundry East
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1967
Country: Australia
Mass:help 43.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 54  (1976)  H4
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H3.7
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H3.7
Recommended:  H3.7    [explanation]

This is 1 of 75 approved meteorites classified as H3.7.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
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Writeup from MB 54:
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DISCOVERY OF THE LAUNDRY EAST, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE

Name: LAUNDRY EAST

Place of find: Seven miles E of Laundry Rockhole, which is 25 miles N of Madura on the road to Loongana station on the Trans-Australian Railway, Western Australia.

31°31'S, 127°08'E.

Date of find: March, 1967

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4).

Number of individual specimens: 1

Total weight: 43.1 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. 54, Meteoritics 11, 69-93 (1976)
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Geography:

Australia
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (31° 32'S, 127° 6'E)
     Recommended::   (31° 32'S, 127° 6'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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