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| Basic information | Name: Wildara This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: Australia Mass:  500 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 11568 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H 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 WILDARA, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: WILDARA Place of find: A sandy creek bed near Wildara pastoral station homestead, 56 miles NW of Leonora, Western Australia. 28°14'S, 120°51 'E. Date of find: 1968 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Number of individual specimens: Several hundred fragments of an individual. Total weight: About 500 kg Circumstances of find: A large mass of a disintegrated meteorite was excavated from a sandy stream bed by J.R. Money and R.J. and I. Hill. Source: G.J.H. McCall. 1972. Second supplement to Western Australian Special Publication No. 3 (Catalogue of Western Australian Meteorite Collection). Western Australian Museum, Perth. | ||||||||||||||||
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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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