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| Basic information | Name: Pine Dam This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: Australia Mass:  200 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 7139 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 66:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Pine Dam South Australia, Australia Found 1976, March 30 Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5). A single 200.4 g mass was found near Pine Dam, Myrtle Springs Station, NW of Leigh Creek, South Australia by an aboriginal. Olivine Fa24.2. Private collection of J. Du Pont. (P. P. Sipiera, Harper College, Palatine, IL 60067, USA; Y. Kawachi, Geology Dept., Univ. of Otago, New Zealand) | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 66, Meteoritics 23, 171-173 (1988)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 238 approved meteorites from South Australia, Australia (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) This is 1 of 714 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 45 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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