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| Basic information | Name: Credo This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1967 Country: Australia Mass:  10.82 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12780 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 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE CREDO, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: CREDO Place of find: Credo pastoral station, 8.9 miles on a bearing of 325° from the homestead; Credo station is approximately 50 miles NW of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 30°22'S, 120°44'E. Date of find: October, 1967. Class and type: Stone. Olivine hypersthene chondrite (L6). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 10.82 kg Circumstances of find: A single mass, entirely covered with fusion crust except for a small area of the surface from which some small flakes had been naturally lost, was found by P. J. Howell. Source: G. J. H. McCall and W. H. Cleverly. 1969. The Credo and Fenbark meteorites, new finds of common chondrites from north-west of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 37, 281-285. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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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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