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The meteorite craters at Henbury, Central Australia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Arthur Richard Alderman
Arthur Richard Alderman*
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
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In the early part of 1931 public interest in South Australia was stimulated by the fall of the Karoonda meteorite on November 25, 1930, and its subsequent discovery by an Adelaide University party led by Prof. Kerr Grant. In consequence of this Prof. Grant was informed separately by Mr. B. Bowman of Tempe Downs and Mr. J. M. Mitchell of Oodnadatta that fragments of meteoric iron were to be found surrounding several crater-like depressions near Henbury Cattle Station in Central Australia. The number of craters was variously described as three and five.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 136 , March 1932 , pp. 19 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1932

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Footnotes

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Published by permission of the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum.

References

page 19 note 1 Grant, K. and Dodwell, G. F., Nature, London, 1931, vol. 127, pp. 402, 631. [Min. Abstr., vol. 5, p. 15.]Google Scholar

page 26 note 1 Gibber, aboriginal Australian for a large stone or boulder

page 27 note 1 Some of the craters of the moon (e.g. Copernicus) show somewhat similar radiating ridges. This may perhaps lend some support to the theory that the lunar craters are of meteoric origin.

page 29 note 1 Merrill, G.P., Smithsonian Miscell. Collections, 1908, vol. 50 (Quarterly Issue, vol. 4), p. 461 Google Scholar

page 32 note 1 Min: Abstr., 1931, vol. 4, pp. 427-428 ; 1932, vol. 5, pp. 16-17.