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Mount Sir Charles | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Mount Sir Charles This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1942 Country: Australia Mass: 22.9 kg | ||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IVA. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, IVA irons, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
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 OF THE MOUNT SIR CHARLES, AUSTRALIA, IRON METEORITE Name: MOUNT SIR CHARLES Place of find: On Mount Sir Charles, 7 miles E of Bond Springs station, Northern Territory, Australia. 23°50'S, 134°02'E. Date of find: 1942 Class and type: Iron. Fine octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 22.9 kg Circumstances of find: Found by T. Williams. Source: David W. P. Corbett. 1968. Catalogue of meteorites in the South Australian Museum (excluding tektites). Record of the South Australian Museum 15, 767-790. | ||||||||||||||||
Buchwald | The following entries were found for Mount Sir Charles 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. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites from Northern Territory, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 10 impact craters) This is 1 of 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms: |
Bond Springs (In NHM Cat) |