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| Basic information | Name: Redfields This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Australia Mass:  8.74 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 151 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE REDFIELDS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, IRON METEORITE Name: REDFIELDS Place of find: Redfields Farm, about 11 km east of Gabalong, Western Australia. 30°43'S, 116°30'E. Date of find: Some years ago. Class and type: Iron. Anomalous, coarse structured (6.65% Ni) with high C and P. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 8.74 kg Circumstances of find: Mrs. M. Bennett of Wongan Hills, Western Australia, reported a 'football-sized' piece of iron was recovered some years ago during stone picking in fields of Redfields Farm. She took a small piece of the Western Australian Museum, Perth, in 1969 where it was identified as a meteorite. Source: J. R. De Laeter, G. J. H. McCall and S. J. B. Reed. 1973. The Redfields meteorite - A unique iron from Western Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 39,30-35. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Redfields 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. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
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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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| Synonyms: |
Redlands (In NHM Cat) Redlands Farm (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||