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58.63 grams. Iron IC
TKW 734 kg. Fall not observed. Found 1909, Western Australia, Australia.
Graham writes:
The Mount Dooling meteorite belongs to the rare IC class of irons.
A mass of about 31.5 kg was found in 1909 by A.P. Brophy when he was prospecting for gold 8 km east of Mount Dooling and near Lake Giles (Simpson1912). The whole mass and two fragments, broken off by Brophy and totaling about 500 g, were acquired by the Geological Survey of Western Australia.
Measurements of the gallium, germanium and nickel composition of the Mount Manning (701 kg) and Gosnells eteorites show they both belong to the Mount Dooling fall.
A 701 kg iron meteorite called the Gosnells, weighing 1.5 kg, was found near Perth in 1960, is part of the same fall and must have been transported from the Mount Manning region by humans. This is possibly one of the few examples of a meteorite that may have been transported by aborigines. |
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
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Graham Macleod
1/22/2016 5:35:50 PM |
Thanks for your comments and for the information Bernd.
W.A. is rich in it's meteorite history and this is one of those that has a lot to share :) |
Mark Bittmann
1/22/2016 12:25:54 PM |
Still need one of these for my collection. Nice one, Graham. |
Michael Mulgrew
1/22/2016 11:32:00 AM |
Great iron, Graham! |
Bernd Pauli
1/22/2016 5:28:28 AM |
BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Vol. 3, p. 850: Mount Dooling appears to be a coarse octahedrite with a primary structure similar to that of Union County, Seel*sgen or Sikhote-Alin. In its chemical composition it is anomalous, but slightly related to both groups I and IIB. |
Werner Schroer
1/22/2016 2:07:55 AM |
Another rare meteorite from Western Australia. Thanks for sharing, Graham. |
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