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| Basic information | Name: Moama This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1940 Country: Australia Mass:  3.42 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 55 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-cm. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY AND ASSUMED FALL OF THE MOAMA, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: MOAMA Place of find: 17 miles northwest of Moama, southern New South Wales, Australia. 35°57'S, 144°31'E.' Date of fall: Probably fell some months before October, 1940. Class and type: Stone. Eucrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 3.416 kg Circumstances of find: Found in October, 1940, by the late Mr. J. M. Martin in a grassy paddock on the farm "Benarca Park" (property of Mr. Gordon Leitch) near Womboota, approximately 17 miles northwest of Moama. The surface flight features are extremely well-preserved, and phenomena associated with the fall of a meteorite were reported in the Moama area a few months earlier. Source: J. F. Lovering. 1975. The Moama eucrite - a pyroxene-plagioclase adcumulate. Preprint. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 56 approved meteorites from New South Wales, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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