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| Basic information | Name: Woolgorong This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1960 Country: Australia Mass:  36 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13099 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L 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 WOOLGORONG STONY METEORITE, AUSTRALIA Name: WOOLGORONG. The place of fall or discovery: Woolgorong Station, north-northeast of Mullewa, We stern Australia; φ = 27°43' S, λ = 115°50' E. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, July, 1961; believed to have fallen in December, 1960. Class and type: STONY, veined and brecciated olivine - hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 6 large and numerous smaller fragments. Total weight: Approximately 36 kg. Circumstances of fall or discovery: Unearthed by W. Hamlet and C. Monger from a shallow crater some 30 cm deep in topsoil. The main mass disintegrated on impact and left a trail of small meteorite fragments and dust along a northwest trend line. Source: Report of Dr. G. Baker (Melbourne, Australia) in a letter, 1X.10 1964 and an article: G. J. H. McCall and P. M. Jeffrey in Journ. Roy. Soc. Western Australia, 47(2), 1964. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 33, Moscow (1965)
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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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