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Cockarrow Creek | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Cockarrow Creek This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1970 Country: Australia Mass: 429 g | ||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12727 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 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 COCKARROW CREEK, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: COCKARROW CREEK Place of find: About 8 miles SW of Wiluna, Western Australia. 26°40'S, 120°10'E. Date of find: 1970 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 429.2 g Circumstances of find: Found by J.H.W. Barnes on a small hillock close to Milly Milly Creek. Source: G.J.H. McCall. 1972. Second supplement to Western Australian Special Publication No. 3 (Catalogue of Western Australian Meteorite Collections). 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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