DESCRIPTION ANT) ANALYSIS OF TlIK 

 HI NT) A MKTKOIO'I'K. 



By C. Anukksun, M.A., I). Sc. (Kdiii.), Mineialofi'ist, Austialiaii 



Museum, and .l.C.H. MiX(iAYK, F.I.C., Anal^'st and Assayer 



t(i the Depai'tment of Mines of New Soutli Wales. 



(Plates x-xiii.) 



llifh'iij.— This Aerolite fell, piohably, on tlie nij^lit of 

 Saturday, 25tli May, 1912. On tliat date a meteor was seen 

 passiiijo^ ovei- (Toulbuni and Ci'ookwell, ti-avelling' N.E. to S.W. 

 Obsei'vers report that tlie luminous plienomenon was accom- 

 panied by a loud Jioise, a Crookwell I'esident takinfi: it for the 

 s*)und of an aeroplane ovei'head. The meteorite was discovered 

 on oth June by Alick McCoimack on Mr. Fraser's property 

 foui' miles fi-om Binda (Lat. 34"' 18' S, Lono-. 149^' 25' F) ; it is 

 not absolutely certain tliat the stone found is actually that seen 

 in flight on 25tli May, but circumstantial evidence is strono-ly in 

 favour of tliis beintf tlie case. McC'orniack was entraged in 

 rabbit trajjpiny, ami noticed what he at first took for a newly 

 formed i-abbit bui-row ; on tracing the furrow to its tei-mination 

 lie found the meteorite partly embedded in the ground. We may 

 conclude, thei'efore, tliat the stone had fallen quite recently, a 

 conclusi(>n strengthened liy examination of the meteoi-ite itself, 

 which is in a |)ej'fectly fi-esh condition. The meteorite subse- 

 quently passed into the custody of ]\Irs. A. Gilmartin, proprie- 

 tress and editress of the "Argyle Liberal" newspajtei- at 

 Crookwell ; it was on exhibitioji for some time at the office of 

 that paper, and there, unfortunately, it was broken into two 

 pieces, one of which, weighing 51bs IS^o/s., was presented to 

 the Trustees b}' Mrs. (iilmai-tin, the other, weighing 41bs 

 6|ozs. being ])i'esented to the Technological Museum, Sydney, 

 by the tinder. Tlie meteorite is stated to have weighed 121bs 

 orio-inally, so tlijit aliout 21hs weight is unaccounted foi-. 



For the ])ieceding details we are indebted to Mi', .lames 

 McCoi-mack, whose sf)n discovered the meteorite, to ('onstable 

 Donnelly, who made enquiries for us at Crookwell, and to Mrs. 

 Gilmartin, in whose paper, the "Argyle Liberal," of 14th 

 June, an account of the find was published. 



