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| Basic information | Name: Mundrabilla 012 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1992 Country: Australia Mass:  30.6 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is the only approved meteorite classified as CV2. Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 75:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Mundrabilla 012 Nullarbor, Western Australia, Australia Found 1992 April Carbonaceous chondrite (CV2 ?) A complete individual of 30.6 g was found. Type specimen, classification and analysis, olivine-microporphyritic chondrules, olivine cores Fa0.3-6, margins and narrow zones along cracks Fa20, the semi-transparent matrix consists of sheet silicates and contains recrystallized patches out of Fe-rich olivine (Fa44), diopside and calcium carbonate, metal transformed to ironoxide pseudomorphs, Ca, Al-rich inclusions, F. Ulff-Moller, Institute of Physics, University of Odense, Campusvej 55, DK5230 Odense, Denmark [Ed: SDUO]. Information and main mass, David New, P. O. Box 278, Anacortes, Washington 98221, USA. See also Ulff-Moller et al. (1993). | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 75, Meteoritics 28, 692-703 (1993)
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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 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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