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Some new and little-known meteorites found in Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Edward S. Simpson
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When some publicity was given recently in the press to the Gundaring and Kumerina finds, which are described below, Mr. G. E. Willard called upon me in regard to a meteorite which had fallen on Dalgaranga sheep station (27° 45′ S., 117° 5′ E.). He stated that when he was a manager of this station in 1923 he found a crater measuring 75 yards across at the top, 50 yards at the bottom, and 15 feet deep. The surface of the country was ‘hard conglomerate’ (laterite?—E. S. S.), and pieces of rock up to one cubic yard were pushed up out of the hole, as if there had been an explosion. The NW. side had been thrust upwards more than any other, indicating that the meteorite came from the SE. In and around the crater Willard found ‘a hatful’ of small ragged pieces of iron like the Henbury (Central Australia) fragments. These original specimens unfortunately had since been mislaid, but he was able to secure for me from the present manager of the station a 40-gram piece.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 163 , December 1938 , pp. 157 - 171
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1938

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page 166 note 1 Mentioned by L. Fletcher (1887) as Penkarring Rock; and this form was used by E. Cohen (1894) and A. Brezina (1896) for the name of the meteorite. On old maps various other spellings appear.—(Ed.)