Ref # X201 HAMILTON L6, Part Slice with one side fusion crust, Weight: 119.48 g

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Here you get a beautiful part slice with fusion crust an one side, of a fully classified chondritic L6 Australian meteorite,

found in the flood plains of the Ballone River in QLD. Australia. 

Weight: 119.48 g

Dimensions: 58.9 x 50.9 x 13.9  mm
Name: HAMILTON
Class: L6 Chondrite
Country: Hamilton Station, QLD., AUSTRALIA
Date: Find: 1966
TKW: 68 kg

 Writeup from MB 42:
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DISCOVERY OF HAMILTON STONY METEORITE, AUSTRALIA

Name: HAMILTON

The place of fall or discovery: Hamilton Station, near Dirranbandi, Queensland, Australia; (φ = 28°29' S, λ = 148°15' E.

Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, 1966.

Class and type: STONY, veined olivine - hypersthene chondrite.

Number of individual specimens: 1.

Total weight: 68 kg.

Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite almost buried by mud in flood-plain of the Balonne River. Main mass in University of New England.

Source: Report of Dr. R. A. Binns (Armidale, Australia) in a letter, XI 15, 1967