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Streaky Bay | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Streaky Bay This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1989 Country: Australia Mass: 909 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 2062 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 71:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Streaky Bay South Australia, Australia Found May 1989 Stone. Ordinary chondrite (L4). A single stone of 909 g was found by Tim Fuhlboom, a National Parks and Wildlife Ranger, near the Streaky Bay Pumping Station. It is a flat, disc-shaped oriented stone showing well developed flow lines on one face. It is partly encrusted by a fusion crust and is slightly weathered. Classification and analysis, olivine with unduluse extinction, Fa26.1, pyroxene Fs22.1 (Wo0.8 to 1.3), Margaret Wallace, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia 5000. (See also: M. Wallace and A. Pring, Meteoritics 26, 1991, in press.) | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 71, Meteoritics 26, 255-262 (1991)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 241 approved meteorites from South Australia, Australia (plus 3 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) This is 1 of 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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