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| Basic information | Name: Poonarunna This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1970 Country: Australia Mass:  76 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10209 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 59:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE POONARUNNA, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: POONARUNNA Place of find: On Kalamurina Station, 2 km north of the Warburton River and 15 km from the Poonarunna oil well, South Australia, Australia. 27°46'S., 137°51'E. Date of find: 1970 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Olivine Fa19.9, pyroxene Fs17.8 Wo1.5, 23.88% total iron. Number of individual specimens: I Total weight: Not known, too large to be moved by the finder. Circumstances of find: Found by James Dunn at the base of a sand dune. It was too large for him to move and subsequent searches have failed to find it. Source: M.J. Fitzgerald, 1979. The Chemistry and Mineralogy of the Meteorites of South Australia and Adjacent Regions. Ph.D. thesis, University of Adelaide, Australia, 243. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 59, Meteoritics 16, 193-199 (1981)
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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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