Dimensions: 46.4 x 36.3 x 13.6 mm max.
Name: HENBURY
Class: Iron IIIA
Country: Northern Territory, Australia
Date: Find: 1931
TKW: 2,000+ kg
The
Henbury Meteorite Craters
Discovered
in 1922 by Prof. Arthur Alderman of the University of Adelaide.
The Henbury craters were among the first in Australia to be
recognised as being of impact origin. In addition to well-defined
craters there is a strewn field of iron meteorite fragments.
The area was extensively studied in the 1960's by Daniel Milton
of the United States Geological Survey as a training area for
the Apollo program. They are Australia's most studied impact
craters (as opposed to astrobleme). Crater 3 is the only known
terrestrial rayed crater..
The formation
age of the craters is about 4,700 years, E.M. Shoemaker et al,
Meteoritics, 1990, 25, p.409.
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