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South Australian Museum Meteorite Collection

Created 04/05/2025

Updated 04/05/2025

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The meteorite collection contains representative material from over 150 Australian and overseas meteorites, with the focus mainly on those that have been found in South Australia. The collection includes pieces from significant international meteorites, such as the Indian Shergotty and Egyptian Nakhla falls, since determined to have originated from Mars. The data includes the locality and date of finds, weight and other descriptive information, and information about their acquisition. The South Australian Museum manages this dataset using the KE EMu collection management system. The full dataset is published on data.sa.gov.au as a .csv file.

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Title South Australian Museum Meteorite Collection
Language English
Licence cc-by-nc
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/1436651b-0684-42f1-b2e3-7dd113e2c007
Remote Last Updated 03/07/2016
Contact Point
South Australian Museum
DataSA@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 25/05/2013
Geospatial Coverage SA0062407: South Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "South Australian Museum Meteorite Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-museum-meteorite-collection