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| Basic information | Name: Miles This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1992 Country: Australia Mass:  265 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 17 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIE. [show all] Search for other: IIE irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 77:
Miles Queensland, Australia Found 1992 Iron (IIE), with silicate inclusions A mass of about 265 kg was found on open shrub farmland. Classification and analysis: 7.96% Ni, 0.443% Co, 182 ppm Cu, 26.6 ppm Ga, 9.52 ppm As, 0.86 ppm W, 100 ppb Re, 1.12 ppm Ir, 4.6 ppm Pt, 1.13 ppm Au; John T. Wasson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 900241567, USA. The main mass remains in Australia, about 100 kg of it were exported with legal permission to the USA by Marvin Killgore, P. O. Box 95, Payson, Arizona 85647, USA. Information: T. Kapitany, Collectors Corner, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 77, Meteoritics 29, 891-897 (1994)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites from Queensland, Australia (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) This is 1 of 719 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 11 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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