Miles is a unique meteorite. Few irons display silicates in such a multicolored mosaic; which is characterized by a blend of ortho and clino-pyroxenes,potassium-feldspar, apatite and other silicates in an equigranular iron matrix.
Location: Australia
Millbillillie
A fireball was witnessed in 1960 and appeared to fall on Millbillillie and Jundee Stations. Ten years later, the first meteorites were found. The glassy fusion crust is very impressive. It is an equillibrated eucrite with granular texture brecciated with fine impact-melt.
Molong
A mass of about 230lb was found on Ti-Tree Creek, 12 miles NW of Canoblas, M.H.Hey, Cat. Met., 1966, p.312. Description and analysis, J.C.H.Mingaye, Rec. Geol. Surv. New South Wales, 1916, 9, p.161. Cooling rate and olivine composition, Fa11.3, P.R.Buseck and J.I.Goldstein, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 1969, 80, p.2141. Classification and analysis of metal phase, main group pallasite, 9% Ni, 22.8 ppm Ga, 62.5 ppm Ge, 0.19 ppm Ir, E.R.D.Scott, GCA, 1977, 41, p.349. Study of olivine-metal texture, E.R.D.Scott, GCA, 1977, 41, p.693. Mineralogy and petrology, P.R.Busek, GCA, 1977, 41, p.711. REE abundance pattern in stanfieldite, A.M.Davis and E.J.Olsen, MAPS, 1996, 31, p.A34 (abs.). Oxygen isotopic composition, R.N.Clayton and T.K.Mayeda, GCA, 1996, 60, p.1999.
Hughes 026
Still the rarest group of meteorites described as a dunitic wehrlite, primarily composed of olivine 79%-93%.
Gascoyne Junction
This stewnfield of stones was found by a prospector searching for gold. These stones have the typical fusion crust stained by the red dirt of the Australian
outback.
Henbury
The thirteen craters in the Henbury crater-field were formed about 5000 years ago. Some of the meteorites are unaltered individuals and others exploded upon impact. The aboriginal name for the place is “sun-walk-fire-devil-rock”; which sounds like someone stepped on a surface meteorite heated in hot Australian sun. Henbury etched pattern is a favorite; it has crisp sparkling Widmanstatten pattern.
Huckitta
Huckitta is the largest pallasite mass known on the planet. Though nearly all smaller specimens found today are oxidized, we have preserved some fresh-metal specimens. The metal is unaltered and has remained stable many years.
Cocklebiddy
A Single stone found on a sheep station Hampton Tableland, WA. A mass of 19.5kg was found 2.6 miles WNW of Nallah Nallah Rockhole, G.J.H.McCall and W.H.Cleverly, Min. Mag., 1968, 36, p.691, G.J.H.McCall, First suppl. to West. Austr. Mus. Spec. Publ. no. 3, 1968, p.3, A.L.Graham et al., Cat. Met., 1985, p.106. Olivine Fa17.2, B.Mason, Rec. Austr. Mus., 1974, 29, p.169. Cd and Zn abundances, K.J.R.Rosman and J.R.De Laeter, GCA, 1974, 38, p.1665. Te content, C.L.Smith et al., GCA, 1977, 41, p.676. Yb content, M.T.McCulloch et al., GCA, 1977, 41, p.1703. Bulk chemical analysis, T.C.Hughes and P.Hannaker, Meteoritics, 1978, 13, p.89. Pd content, N.Mermelengas et al., GCA, 1979, 43, p.747. Find location, coordinates, A.W.R.Bevan and R.A.Binns, Meteoritics, 1989, 24, p.127. C-14 terrestrial age, A.J.T.Jull et al., Workshop on Meteorites from Cold and Hot Deserts, LPI Tech. Rpt. 95-02, 1995, p.37 (abs.). Analysis of halogene distribution, U.Kr
Dalgaranga
Very few pieces were recovered around a the 75 feet crater. All of these specimens have a lot of fresh metal and are very stable.
Bencubbin
Bencubbin displays evenly distributed enclaves of chondritic and achondritic material throughout. For many years the Bencubbin meteorite was considered one of a kind. In recent years several similar finds and one fall have come to light. Since Bencubbin was the first and had been studied in detail when others of this type were identified they were referred to as Bencubbin-like meteorites. Considering their bulk refractory lithophile abundance normalized to Si, and their O-isotopic ratios they have been further designated as part of the CCs (carbonaceous chondrites) Type Câ€B†Bencubbibites and are closely related to the CR-clan meteorites.