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Re: Millbillillie

mark jackson schrieb:

> Hi , Need  all of the info. i can get on Millbillillie, hope i
> spelled it right.I think it is a lot more interesting than Bickering



Hello Mark, hello List!

I heartily agree that the Millbillillie eucrite is far more interesting
than all this 'bickering' because nothing but bad can come from it! See
Craig's posting - just to mention one among many others.

Millbillillie (AEUC), HED
Wiluna District, Western Australia
26° 27’ S / 120° 22’ E
Fell 1960, October
Day unknown, but about 01:00 pm
Recovered 1970

20 kg, Perth, West. Aust. Mus. (largest stone and 565 gr). Specimen,
coll. of C.V. Latz (of "Nabberu"). 241 gr, Chicago, Field Mus. Nat.Hist.
66 gr, Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico, BM London, 250 gr (crusted part
slice), thin section, 20.6 gr (crusted part slice of "Nabberu").

A fireball was witnessed in October 1960 and a meteorite appeared to
fall on the plain of the Millbillillie and Jundee Stations. No search
was initiated at that time but in 1970, the first of at least three
specimens was found. The total weight recovered is at least 25.4 kg,
R.A. Binns, West. Austr. Yearbook, 1973, (12), p.1 (M.A. 74-3318).
Reported, Meteor. Bull., 1972, (51), Meteoritics, 1972, 7, p. 219.
Description, M.J. Fitzgerald, Trans. Roy.Soc. South Austr., 1980, 104,
p. 201.
Analysis, B. Mason et al., Smithson. Contrib. Earth Sci., 1979, (22), p.
30.

FITZGERALD M.J. et al. (1980) Muckera and Millbillillie - Australian
achondritic meteorites (Trans.Roy.Soc. South Austr. 104, 201-209).

WILLIS R.D. et al. (1990) The cosmic age exposure age of the
Millbillillie meteorite determined by conventional mass spectrometry
and  by RIS-TOF (Inst. Phys. Conference Ser. 114, 275-278).

MORDEN S.J. (1992) The magnetic properties of the Millbillillie eucrite:
Palaeointensity results and evidence for a dynamo-type magnetising field
(Meteoritics 27-3, 1992, A264).

YAMAGUCHI A. et al. (1994) Textural variations and impact history of the
Millbillillie eucrite (Meteoritics 29, 237-245).


Best wishes,

Bernd