Esperance
PLACEMARK Information about the name Name: Esperance
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Information from the NHM Catalogue: This meteorite was not observed to fall.
Classification: L/LL3
Year of find: 1991
Country of origin: Australia
Latitude: 33.8667 S; Longitude: 121.917 E
Information from MetBase: This meteorite was not observed to fall.
Classification: L/LL3.4
Year of find: 1991
Country of origin: Australia
Latitude: 33.8667 S; Longitude: 121.917 E
Forrest 003 meteorite
Name: Forrest 003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Information from the NHM Catalogue and MetBase (identical): This meteorite was not observed to fall. Classification: H3 Year of find: 1970 Country of origin: Australia Latitude: 30.9 S; Longitude: 128.083 E References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 68, Meteoritics 25, 59-70 (1990) Find references in NASA ADS Mass: 74 g Data from: MB68 Table 1 Line 10: Finder: A. J. Carlisle Date: 1970 Latitude: 3054'S Longitude: 12805'E Mass (g): 74 Pieces: 1 Class: H3 Info: See A. W. R. Bevan and R. A. Binns, Meteoritics, 1989, 24, 127-133
Forrest 002 meteorite.
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Information from the NHM Catalogue and MetBase (identical): This meteorite was not observed to fall. Classification: L6 Year of find: 1980 Country of origin: Australia Latitude: 30.9833 S; Longitude: 127.883 E References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 68, Meteoritics 25, 59-70 (1990) Find references in NASA ADS Mass: 26 kg Writeup, from MB 68: Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCOVERY OF THE FORREST (b) AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE Name: FORREST (b) Synonym: South Forrest Place of find: About 20 miles SW. of Forrest, south of the Trans-Australian railway, Western Australia, Australia. 3059'S., 12753'E. Date of find: October 1980 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa26 0, low-Ca pyroxene Fs21 9Wo1.5. Number of individual specimens: Not reported. Total weight: 26 kg, approximately. Circumstances of fall: Found during mineral prospecting on the Nullarbor Plain. Source: W. Zeitschel, D-6450 Hanau. West Germany and A.L. Graham, Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, SW7 51313. Note: The meteorite previously reported as Forrest. an olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5) by G.J.H. McCall and W.H. Cleverly (J. Roy. Soc. West. Austr., 1970, 53, 69) should now be referred to as Forrest (a).