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| Basic information | Name: Wedderburn This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1951 Country: Australia Mass:  210 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-sLH. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 21 Jan 2023: Updated location | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 8:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. WEDDERBURN, Victoria, Australia. Iron. Literature: 1. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1953, v.64, pp. 73-76. /MA-12-255/. Writeup from MB 112: Wedderburn: updated location and further information.
A more accurate location and updated information about the classification is presented in Birch (2019). The iron was found at 36.39°S, 143.65°E. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Wedderburn 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. 8, Moscow (1958) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112, in preparation (2023)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Victoria, Australia This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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