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| Basic information | Name: Laundry West This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1967 Country: Australia Mass:  4 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2012 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L4. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L 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 LAUNDRY WEST, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: LAUNDRY WEST Place of find: Six miles NW of Laundry Rockhole, which is 25 miles N of Madura on the road to Loongana station on the Trans-Australian Railway, Western Australia. 31°28'S, 126°56'E. Date of find: March, 1967 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5). Number of individual specimens: 5 Total weight: 201.9 g Circumstances of find: Found by M. and 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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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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