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Meteorite Men S02E08 Mundrabilla, Australia 21 December 2010

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Western Australia is prime meteorite collecting country because its barren expanse makes fallen space debris easy to spot. The Mundrabilla meteorite (named for the town in Western Australia where it was located in 1966) is one of the largest known iron-composition space stones in existence, and a slice of it has recently been acquired by the Monnig Meteorite Gallery at Texas Christian University.

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latitude 30° 47' S., longitude 127° 33' E.

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