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| Basic information | Name: Pannikin This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1965 Country: Australia Mass:  13.6 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11543 approved meteorites (plus 6 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 PANNIKIN, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: PANNIKIN Place of find: Approximately 3.5 miles E of Cocklebiddy Tank, Eyre Highway, Western Australia. 32°02'30"S, 126°11'E. Date of find: 1965 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 13.6 g Circumstances of find: Two fragments of meteoritic material were collected from within a distinct impact pit by Mr. A. J. Carlisle of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Source: G. J. H. McCall and W. H. Cleverly. 1968. New stony meteorite fords including two ureilites from the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. MineralogicalMagazine 36, 691-716. | ||||||||||||||||
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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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