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Rowena | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Rowena This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1962 Country: Australia Mass: 34.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 6775 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 33:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF ROWENA STONY METEORITE, AUSTRALIA Name: ROWENA. The place of fall or discovery: 27 km west of Rowena, New South Wales, Australia; φ = 29°48' S, λ = 148°38' E. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, January, 1962. Class and type: STONY, olivine-bronzite chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: Approximately 35 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite is a weathered stone and was broken into a great number of fragments when struck by a plough. The finders were R. Colyvan and C. M. Phelps. Main Mass of the meteorite is in the Australian Museum (Sydney, Australia). Source: Report of Dr. R. O. Chalmers (Sydney, Australia) in a letter, XII.7 1964. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 33, Moscow (1965)
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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 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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