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| Basic information | Name: Lismore This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1959 Country: Australia Mass:  10 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB?. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 21:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. NEW LISMORE IRON METEORITE, AUSTRALIA Name: LISMORE. The place of fall or discovery: Approximately two kilometers west of Lismore, Victoria, Australia. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, before November 1959. Class and type: IRON, medium octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: Nearly 10-kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was found by a farmer in a paddock. Source: Article by A. B. E dwards. The Lismore Meteoritic Iron. Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1960, vol. 72, Part 2, 93-94. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Lismore in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 21, Moscow (1961)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Victoria, Australia This is 1 of 717 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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