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| Basic information | Name: Fenbark This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: Australia Mass:  1861 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10290 approved meteorites (plus 18 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H 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 FENBARK, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: FENBARK Place of find: Approximately 25 miles NNW of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, a quarter of a mile on a bearing of 8° from Mt. Ellis trigonometrical station, in the general vicinity of the Fenbark group of goldmining leases. 30°26'2:5"S, 121°15'25"E.'' Date of find: May 19,1968. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 1.861 kg Circumstances of find: Found by A. A. Skinner, K. J. Erbe and F. C. Bray, members of a nickel-prospecting syndicate. 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 346 approved meteorites from Western Australia, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 11 impact craters) This is 1 of 715 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 45 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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