Wiluna
Seen to fall in 1967 in Australia · 150 kg recovered · H5
Wiluna is the third-heaviest of the 15 falls recorded in Australia. It is the heaviest of the two H5 falls recorded in Australia. Millbillillie came down only 16 km to the north, in 1960.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 26.593° S, 120.328° E
The map is centred on Wiluna. Rings every 1,000 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Millbillillie | 1960 | Eucrite-mmict | 330 kg | 16 km north |
| 2 | Woolgorong | 1960 | L6 | 36 kg | 463 km west |
| 3 | Binningup | 1984 | H5 | 488 g | 856 km south-west |
| 4 | Bunburra Rockhole | 2007 | Eucrite | 324 g | 1,011 km south-east |
| 5 | Karoonda | 1930 | CK4 | 42 kg | 2,090 km south-east |
| 6 | Mount Browne | 1902 | H6 | 11 kg | 2,121 km east |
What H5 means
H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. Wiluna carries about 50 times the median recovered mass of H5 falls. By recovered mass Wiluna ranks fifth of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Binningup in Australia, 856 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Wiluna is Pavel (1966, Bulgaria) and the one after is Schenectady (1968, the United States).
Wiluna in Australia’s record
In date order Wiluna is number 11 of the 15 falls recorded in Australia, which run from 1879 to 2007. The fall recorded before Wiluna in Australia is Woolgorong (1960); the next is Murchison (1969).
The 1960s
Wiluna is one of 57 falls dated to the 1960s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1967, among them Tugalin-Bulen in Mongolia, Tathlith in Saudi Arabia, Parambu in Brazil.