Australian Museum Journal The Elsinor meteorite: A new chondite from New South Wales
- Shortform:
- Hodge-Smith, 1929, Rec. Aust. Mus. 17(1): 50–52
- Author(s):
- Hodge-Smith, T.
- Year published:
- 1929
- Title:
- The Elsinor meteorite: A new chondite from New South Wales
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 50
- End page:
- 52
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.17.1929.753
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate xxiv
- Date published:
- 20 June 1929
- Cover date:
- 20 June 1929
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 02 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 753
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (103kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (764kb PDF)
Abstract
While I was in Broken Hill, New South Wales, during November, 1924, Dr. W. Macgillivray, whose kind hospitality I was at the time enjoying, showed me two specimens which have since proved to be parts of a meteoric stone. Both these specimens he very generously presented to the Museum, and supplied the following information in regard to their history. "The meteorite was found by Mr. Jorgen Thue-Johnsen, a surveyor of the Public Works Department, when surveying a line on Elsinora Station about 10 miles south-east from Thurloo Downs Homestead, which is about forty-six miles north-west from Wanaaring Township on the Paroo River, New South Wales. It was the only stone in a sandy paddock and hence attracted attention. One of Johnsen's men broke it with a hammer, and the two pieces which he gave me."