Meteorite**Millbillillie,Australia;Eucrite Achondrite**129.54 Gram, 100% Crusted

Description

Hello up for auction is a historic fall known as Millbillillie and classified as a Eucrite Achondrite. This gorgeous individual weighs 129.55 grams, 100% fusion crusted, with flow lines, heat contaction cracks, and red soil stains. This is a true museum quality individual purchased from the Denver show 2021, comes with COA card and display case. History: Station workers, F. Vicenti and F. Quadrio, observed a fireball while opening a gate in the boundary fence on the Millbillillie - Jundee track. An object "with sparks coming off it" fell into a spinifex plain to their north. No search was initiated, but D. Vicenti and M. Finch found two stones in this plain in 1970 and 1971. Aboriginals have since found others. The largest stone (20 kg) and one smaller one (565 g) are in the Western Australian Museum.
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Over 330 kg (727 lbs) of this eucrite (achondrite) fell in a shower of stones over Millbillillie and Jundee Stations, Wiluna district, Western Australia, in October of 1960.
Amazingly, despite the fall being observed by station workers, the first of these meteorites was not collected until 1970.
Eucrites are the most common type of achondrite meteorite falls (vs. finds) and are believed to have formed from the cooling of magma on the surface of the Asteroid 4-Vesta.
Name: Millbillillie
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1960
Country: Australia
Mass: 330 kg
This is 1 of 254 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict.
FALL OF THE MILLBILLILLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, STONY METEORITE
Name: MILLBILLILLIE
Place: On Millbillillie and Jundee Stations, Wiluna district, Western Australia.
26° 27'S, 120° 22'E.
Date of fall: October, 1960. Day unknown, but about 1 p.m. local time (0500 GMT). Recovered 1970.
Class and type: Stone. Eucrite.
Number of individual specimens: At least 3
Total weight: At least 25.4 kg
Circumstances of fall: Station workers, F. Vicenti and F. Quadrio, observed a fireball while opening a gate in the boundary fence on the Millbillillie - Jundee track. An object "with sparks coming off it" fell into a spinifex plain to their north. No search was initiated, but D. Vicenti and M. Finch found two stones in this plain in 1970 and 1971. Aboriginals have since found others. The largest stone (20 kg) and one smaller one (565 g) are in the Western Australian Museum.
Source: Dr. R. A. Binns, Department of Geology, University of Western Australia.