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Cosmo Newberry | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Cosmo Newberry This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1980 Country: Australia Mass: 2.16 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 148 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 61:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE COSMO NEWBERRY, AUSTRALIA, IRON METEORITE Name: COSMO NEWBERRY Place of find: 4 km north of Cosmo Newberry homestead, Western Australia, Australia. 27°57'S.,122°53'E. Date of find: 1980 Class and type: Iron. Hexahedrite (IIA). 5.64% Ni, 62 ppm Ga, 190 ppm Ge and 19 ppm Ir. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 2.156 kg Circumstances of find: Found on the surface of the ground by an Aborigine, Dannie Harris. The meteorite has an unusual spiky tetrahedral shape. The specimen is in the Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia. Source: J.R. de Laeter, School of Physics and Geophysics, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 61, Meteoritics 18, 77-83 (1983)
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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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