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| Basic information | Name: Corowa This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1964 Country: Australia Mass:  11.34 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIF. [show all] Search for other: IIF irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 31:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF COROWA IRON METEORITE, AUSTRALIA Name: COROWA. The place of fall or discovery: 6.4 km from Corowa, New South Wales (near Victorian border), Australia. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND?, date of fall unknown. Brought to scientific notice in 1963. Class and type: IRON, nickel - rich ataxite, with troilite nodules. Number of individual specimens: 1 (complete individual). Total weight: 11.3 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was ploughed up in a wheatfield of D. McGillivray; it has a crust (1 mm. thick) of secondary iron hydroxides, and regmaglypts up to 5.7 by 3.8 cm. Source: Report of Dr. George Baker (Melbourne, Australia) in a letter, I V.2, 1964. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Corowa in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 31, Moscow (1964)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 56 approved meteorites from New South Wales, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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