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| Basic information | Name: Willow Grove This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1995 Country: Australia Mass:  11.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 130 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 83:
Willow Grove Victoria, Australia Found 1995 October Iron meteorite (ungrouped) A 2.7 kg iron meteorite was found in 1995 October by a farmer plowing a field. Another 9 kg individual was found the same way in 1998 July. Classification and analysis (W. Birch, Vict; J. Wasson, UCLA): ataxite; contains martensite with 24.5 to 29.0 wt% Ni and a few small schreibersite crystals; etching reveals a fine-scale platy structure overlain by a pervasive network of stress corrosion fractures which are in part crystallographically controlled; bulk analysis, Ni = 27.9 wt%, Co = 1.21 wt%, Ga = 0.23 ppm, As = 0.78 ppm, Ir = 17.4 ppm, Au = 0.233 ppm. Specimens: 400 g, Vict; main masses with finder. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) Vict: 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. 83, MAPS 34, A169-A186 (1999)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Victoria, Australia This is 1 of 704 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 45 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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