| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Bunjil | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Bunjil This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: Australia Mass:  38.75 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 78:
Bunjil Western Australia, Australia Found 1971 April/May Ordinary chondrite (L6, S4-5) Following ploughing, a broken, oriented, weathered (W2) mass weighing 38.75 kg was found in 1971 near Bunjil. Classification, analysis and information: olivine Fa25.1; orthopyroxene Fs21.6; heavily shocked, plagioclase partially converted to maskelynite; A. W. R. Bevan, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia. The main mass is in the Western Australian Museum and may be paired with Latham (see, Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 74). | ||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 78, Meteoritics 30, 792-796 (1995)
| ||||||||||||||||
| Photos: |
| ||||||||||||||||
Geography:
|
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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proximity search: | |||||||||||||||||