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Ref # x203 , MULGA NORTH H6, Stony Meteorite, nice Fusion crusted Individual, Weight: 41.88 g
A rare Specimen!
Latitude: 30° 11' South, Longitude: 126° 22' East, Nyanga Plain, Sleeper Camp, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Sorry, Friends, this is Australia only! No Export Permit!Dimensions: 45.3 x 31.2 x 16.9 mm max.
Name: Mulga Nth.
Class: H6, Ordinary Chondrite
Location: approx. 5 miles East of Wiluna
Country: WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Date: Find: 1964
TKW: 19.9 kg approx.
59 complete stones, total weight 2,421 g, were found by GJH. McCall in 1964.
First supplied to Western Australian Museum.
In total 781 pieces, total weight 19.4 kg. Individual weights range from 2,095 to 0.2 g, have been found by GJH McCall. Another five stones with a combined weight of 548 g have been discovered by a joint WAMET/EUROMET expedition in 1992.
Major distrubution of this meteorite:
19.1 kg in Perth W.A. Museum
278 g in Washington US Nat. Museum
243 g in Berlin Museum at Humbold University
114 g in Kankakee, Illinois, USA, J.Schwade Collection
Radiometric dating of the meteorite itself estimates an age of about 4.5 billion years, suggesting it was formed at the very beginning of the Solar System, and which makes it among the oldest material known to exist ( the oldest rocks on Earth being only half its age!).
We hope you will enjoy owning this unique piece of our Solar System, your own Space Traveler, from way out there.
Is this really something special? You bet!
A Meteorite of only 19.9 kg TKW,
not to be missed in any Aussie Collection!