Dimensions: 39.8 x 24.9 x 14.4 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.