Karoonda (meteorite)
The Karoonda Meteorite , a stone meteorite , fell on November 25, 1930 at 10:53 a.m. near the small settlement of Karoonda in South Australia , 120 kilometers east of Adelaide .
The trajectory of the meteorite was observed from the Eyre Peninsula to the middle of Victoria . It hit sandy soil in a wheat field and its debris was picked up two weeks later by a search team from the University of Adelaide and the Adelaide Observatory. The main mass crashed 3.6 kilometers east of the village on the ground. 41.7 kg of fragments were picked up, including two large and many small pieces, the largest weighing 3.18 kg.
The meteorite consisted mainly of olivine , small amounts of plagioclase , pigeonite , pentlandite , troilite and magnetite , little pyrite , chalcopyrite and a few phosphate minerals ( apatite or merrillite ). Nickel and chromium were not found in the examined object.
In the petrological sense, it is a chondrite , which was designated as CK chondrite with the K to classify the chondrites .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b dckem.sa.gov.au ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Karoonda Meteorite , in English, accessed May 24, 2012.
- ^ Digitallibrary.amnh.org : Brian Mason, HB Wiik: Descriptions of Two Meteorites: Karoonda and Erakot , in English, accessed May 23, 2012.
Web links
- nyrockman.com : Images of the fragments of the Karoonda meteorite in the RA Langheinrich meteorite collection
Coordinates: 35 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 135 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E