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| Basic information | Name: North Reid This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Australia Mass:  309 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 3298 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as LL5. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL 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 NORTH REID, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: NORTH REID Place of find: Approximately 50 miles NNE of Reid station on the Trans-Australian Railway, Western Australia. 30°08'S, 128°38'E. Date of find: August-September, 1969 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite, amphoterite (LL5). Number of individual specimens: 3 Total weight: 308.7 g Circumstances of find: Found by D.A. 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 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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