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Stockyard Creek
Basic information Name: Stockyard Creek
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2008
Country: Australia
Mass:help 2.7 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 10290 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)
Comments: Approved 29 May 2012
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Writeup from MB 100:

Stockyard Creek        23°15’20"S, 116°54’3"E

Western Australia, Australia

Found: 2008

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5)

History: A single stone was found by B. Crawford while he was prospecting. The stone was found within 4 km of the site of recovery of the Warden meteorite (MetBull 69)

Physical characteristics: (A. W. R. Bevan and P. J. Downes, WAM) The stone is an irregular, rounded mass weighing 2.7 kg and measuring 16 × 12 × 10 cm. The surface is 80% covered with fusion crust. Where the interior is exposed, it is iron stained and fresh metal particles are visible.

Petrography: (A. W. R. Bevan and P. J. Downes, WAM) Microscopically, recognizable chondrules, including barred olivine, porphyritic olivine and radiating pyroxene types, are set in a microcrystalline matrix. Accessory minerals include troilite, kamacite, taenite, tetrataenite and chromite.

Geochemistry: Mineral compositions and geochemistry: (A. W. R. Bevan and P. Downes, WAM) Olivine, Fa19.3; low-Ca orthopyroxene, Fs17.1 Wo1.1; chromite, Cr# 85 Fe# 83.6; kamacite, Ni=6.78, Co=0.51 (both wt%).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5); S2; W1

Specimens: Main mass (WAM)

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1915:
State/Prov/County:Western Australia
Date:2008
Latitude:23°15'20"S
Longitude:116°54'3"E
Mass (g):2700
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):19.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):17.1
Wollastonite (mol%):1.1
Classifier:A. W. R. Bevan, WAM
Type spec mass (g):2700
Type spec location:WAM
Main mass:WAM
Finder:B. Crawford
Comments:Submitted by A. W. R. Bevan (WAM)
Institutions
   and collections		 WAM: Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum. Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia; Website (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography:

Australia
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (23° 15' 20"S, 116° 54' 3"E)

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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