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Photos by Dr. Svend Buhl.   Copyright (c) Dr. Svend Buhl.
1531 gram individual. 15 x 10 x 5 cm.   Iron, IIIAB

TKW 2 tons. Fall not observed. Found 1931, Northern Territory, Australia.



   


Matthias writes:
Individual with slighty accentuated regmaglypts in as found condition, showing the laterite-red patina which is characteristic for this location.

Color repro in: Svend Buhl/Don McColl, Henbury Craters & Meteorites, Hamburg 2012, p. 54

I received an e-mail (10th April 2009) from Don McColl, co-author of the above mentioned standard work, which included some notes regarding the 1,531 kg mass:
(...) Thank you for your message with the attached photograph of the Henbury iron meteorite. It is indeed a very fine piece, and very typical of the specimens found out on the flatter areas of the pediment gravel slopes northeast of the craters. My wife Lois and I spent some time looking at the photograph, but we do not think that it is one of the pieces which we ourselves actually found. We lived in Alice Springs in the period from 1986 to 1991 and we were able so spend many pleasant (but often hot) days searching around the craters. Perhaps we found forty or fifty of the bigger pieces, and some hundreds of small pieces. The largest piece we found was 58 kilograms and this piece is now in the museum of the Northern Territory in Alice Springs.

Your specimen is however very typical in appearance to those pieces which we found about one kilometre northeast from the craters near the old original track. This area has considerable surface gravel, and the meteorites were found buried just a few centimetres under the surface. They showed the same slightly accentuated regmaglypts that your piece shows, which is believed to form by the very rare periods when the soil is wet and there is some rusting. (...)
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Denis Gourgues
 10/25/2017 5:55:56 PM
Splendide !!!!!
Anne Black
 10/1/2017 6:04:24 PM
Matthias, the opposite of a "keeper" is a "leaverite" as in Leave-it-right-here. And that Henbury is the opposite of a leaverite.
Matthias
 10/1/2017 1:24:42 PM
Thank you. I am thinking about what would be the contrary of a "keeper". A letting-it-leave-again-as-soon-as-possible'er ; - )
Daniel Da Costa
 10/1/2017 5:32:03 AM
Henbury, a meteorite that I like a lot
Graham
 10/1/2017 3:16:57 AM
Very nice example.
Andreas Koppelt
 10/1/2017 1:32:24 AM
Henbury*s distinctive patina is a highlight within every collection. Definitely a keeper! Congrats!
Paul Kurimsky
 10/1/2017 1:05:47 AM
Beautiful specimen!
Tomasz Jakubowski
 10/1/2017 12:08:04 AM
Amazing specimen Matthias
 

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