HAMMOND DOWNS,A NEW CHONDRITE FROM THE TENHAM AREA,QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA |
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| Authors: | Brian Mason |
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| Abstract: | Among a collection of meteorites from the area of the Tenham shower (Queensland, Australia) was a 27 kg stone which proved to be different from the other Tenham stones. It is a bronzite, H4, chondrite, the principal minerals being olivine (average composition Fa 18.8), clinobronzite and bronzite (average composition Fs16.4), nickel-iron, and troilite; it is considerably weathered, much of the nickel-iron being converted to limonite. It has a highly chondritic structure, with devitrified glass within the chondrules, and without visible plagioclase. This meteorite was found about 1950 near the Hammond Downs station, hence the name; its coordinates are lat 25° 28′ S., long 142° 48′ E. |
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