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Re: Millbillillie

Hi,                     Thanks for the info. and for the image of goofy
driving, gave me a lift on such a hot day.                  mark j.

Bernd Pauli wrote:

> 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