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Ballarat
Basic information Name: Ballarat
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1867
Country: Australia
Mass:help 15 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  IAB
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  IAB
Recommended:  Iron, IAB complex    [explanation]

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Writeup from MB 87:

Ballarat

Victoria, Australia

Found between 1867 and 1874

Iron (IAB)

The 15 g meteorite was found during mining operations by the Park Company in deep lead placer deposits below basalt flows in the West Ballarat goldfield. The meteorite was donated by Henry Rosales to the University of Melbourne in the 1890s. Classification and description (J. Wasson, UCLA;

W. Birch, Vic; L. Samuels, Monash): Nickel 6.1–6.3%, Co 0.36%, Ga 95 µg/g, Ge 480 µg/g, Ir 1.1 µg/g. The meteorite consists of subgrains of kamacite crossed by partially resorbed Neumann bands and contains abundant schreibersite. Specimens: main mass and type specimen Vic.

Institutions
   and collections
Monash: Building 28 School of Geosciences Monash University Victoria 3800 Australia, Australia (institutional address; updated 12 Dec 2012)
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Vic: Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666E, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia; Website (institutional address; updated 26 Oct 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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Geography:

Australia
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (37° 34' 15"S, 143° 49' 31"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Victoria, Australia
     This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters)
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