DISCOVERY OF THE HAMMOND DOWNS, AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE

Name: HAMMOND DOWNS

Place of find: Hammond Downs Station, Queensland, Australia

25^°28'S, 142^°48'E.

Date of find: About 1950

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4).

Number of individual specimens: 1

Total weight: 27 kg

Circumstances of find: This stone was collected along with individuals of the Tenham, Australia, meteorite shower, and was distributed as a Tenham specimen into the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Brian Mason recognized it in 1972 as a bronzite chondrite, a different type of meteorite from the Tenham shower (olivine-hypersthene chondrite, L6).

Source: Mason, Brian. 1973. Hammond Downs, a new chondrite from the Tenham area, Queensland, Australia. Meteoritics 8, 1-7.