[meteorite-list] Dalgaranga page update (historic specimens)

From: The Tricottet Collection <tricottetcoll_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:06:06 +0000
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http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/met_dalgaranga.html

The Dalgaranga meteorite crater (c. 20 m in diameter and 3 m deep) was first described by Dr. Edward S. Simpson [Simpson, 1938, ref. wanted]. His report stated that the crater had first been seen by G. E. Willard, manager of the Dalgaranga Station (ranch) in 1923. Simpson did not visit the crater and only quoted Willard who also sent him a 42-gram meteoritic fragment. Simpson described it as an iron. No one undertook to visit the site until Harvey. H. Nininger inquired about the crater's location at the Western Australian Museum in Perth in early 1959...



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