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| Basic information | Name: Hammond Downs This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1950 Country: Australia Mass:  27 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6000 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE HAMMOND DOWNS, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: HAMMOND DOWNS Place of find: Hammond Downs Station, Queensland, Australia 25°28'S, 142°48'E. Date of find: About 1950 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 27 kg Circumstances of find: This stone was collected along with individuals of the Tenham, Australia, meteorite shower, and was distributed as a Tenham specimen into the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Brian Mason recognized it in 1972 as a bronzite chondrite, a different type of meteorite from the Tenham shower (olivine-hypersthene chondrite, L6). Source: Mason, Brian. 1973. Hammond Downs, a new chondrite from the Tenham area, Queensland, Australia. Meteoritics 8, 1-7. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites from Queensland, Australia (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) This is 1 of 714 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 45 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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