File:Murnpeowie meteorite.jpg

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

File:Murnpeowie meteorite.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Size of this preview: 779 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 312 × 240 pixels | 624 × 480 pixels | 929 × 715 pixels.

Original file (929 × 715 pixels, file size: 132 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Description

Murnpeowie Meteorite - this spectacular, 2520 pound iron meteorite was found in the South Australian Outback in 1909. The mass has a well-preserved, dark-colored, outer surface with nice regmaglypts (surface cavities). Iron meteorites exposed at Earth's surface oxidize & rust relatively quickly. Given the fresh nature of Murnpeowie, it's been estimated that it fell to Earth within five years of it being found.

This rock is an octahedrite, dominated by kamacite & taenite. Sample material cut away for analysis (see dark orangish-colored area at upper left of meteorite) has shown that the Widmanstätten structure commonly seen in octahedrites is not well preserved in Murnpeowie. This has been inferred to be evidence for a significant heating event at some time in the rock's history.

(SAM Met 30A, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia)

Location: South Australian Outback between Lake Callabonna and Lake Blanche, NE by E of Mt. Hopeless, near the Strzelecki Track, eastern South Australia.

Date

24 June 2011, 19:20:15

Source

Flickr: Murnpeowie Meteorite

Author

James St. John

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 10 July 2011, 16:39 by Basilicofresco. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated.

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

You are free:

to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:39, 10 July 2011		929 × 715 (132 KB)	Flickr upload bot	Uploaded from http://flickr.com/photo/47445767@N05/5868072482 using Flickr upload bot

File usage

The following 3 pages use this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Usage on af.wikipedia.org
- Meteoriet
Usage on ar.wikipedia.org
- حجر نيزكي
Usage on bg.wikipedia.org
- Железни метеорити
Usage on bxr.wikipedia.org
- Солир
Usage on da.wikipedia.org
- Meteorit
Usage on de.wikipedia.org
- Regmaglypten
Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Cannelures et gouges
- Entrée atmosphérique des météores et météorites
Usage on hr.wikipedia.org
- Meteorit
Usage on id.wikipedia.org
- Meteorit
Usage on it.wikipedia.org
- Meteorite
Usage on mn.wikipedia.org
- Солир
Usage on os.wikipedia.org
- Арвы нæмыг
Usage on pt.wikipedia.org
- Meteorito
- Meteoroide
Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
Usage on scn.wikipedia.org
- Mitiuriti
Usage on sh.wikipedia.org
- Meteorit
Usage on simple.wikipedia.org
- Meteor
Usage on tr.wikipedia.org
- Meteoroit
- Meteorit
Usage on zh.wikipedia.org
- 隕石

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

_error	0

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Murnpeowie_meteorite.jpg"

Captions

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

copyright status

copyrighted

copyright license

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

inception

24 June 2011

File history

File usage

Global file usage

Metadata