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| Basic information | Name: Wooramel This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Australia Mass:  71 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8890 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 65:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE WOORAMEL, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: WOORAMEL Place of find: About 12 km NW of the Wooramel Station homestead, Western Australia, Australia. 25°39'S., 114°13'E., approximately Date of find: April 1969 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5). Olivine Fa24.5, orthopyroxene Fs21.3. Number of individual specimens: 4 Total weight: 71 kg Circumstances of find: A crusted, weathered individual weighing 45 kg was found by the owner of Wooramel Station, Mr. R.A. Hall. Three additional masses, weighing 6.35 kg, 10.25 kg and 9.4 kg were found in the same general area between 1970 and 1976. Source: A.W.R. Bevan, Department of Mineralogy, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia 6000. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 65, Meteoritics 22, 157-163 (1987)
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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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