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| Basic information | Name: Ariah Park This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1932 Country: Australia Mass:  7.25 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 341 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 10 Dec 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 102:
Ariah Park 34°18.92’S, 147°14.47’E New South Wales, Australia Found: 1932 Classification: Iron meteorite (IIIAB) History: The meteorite was found in a dry creek bed by James Richard Keys in 1932, while he was walking with hunting dogs. It has been in possession of the Keys family since that date. It is named after a breached dam near Ariah Park, County Bland, Parish Mandamah, 44 km from S of West Wyalong, 35 km WNW of Temora, New South Wales. Petrography: (A. Bevan, WAM). The meteorite is an octahedrite containing kamacite, taenite and large plessite fields. Kamacite bandwidth could not be determined accurately due to the small section examined. Kamacite is shock-hardened (ε-kamacite) and contains deformation bands. Kamacite contains abundant, small schreibersite crystals (rhabdites), platelets of carlsbergite, and rare daubréelite. Terrestrial oxidation has penetrated deeply along grain boundaries. Geochemistry: (J.T. Wasson, UCLA): Ni = 77.4, Co = 4.97 (both mg/g), Cu = 167, Ga = 18.4, As = 3.86, Ir = 9.14, Au = 0.575 (all μg/g), W = 1.21 ng/g. Similar to Boxhole. Classification: Iron, Group IIIAB medium to coarse octahedrite Specimens: Type specimen, 24.8 g, AMSA. Main mass with the finder’s son, Patrick James Keys. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB102 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) 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) AMSA: Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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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 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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