Wolf Creek is one of Australia’s most iconic meteorite localities — associated with the famous Wolf Creek Crater (Kandimalal), the second largest meteorite impact crater in the world that is clearly visible at the surface, located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The meteorite was first found in 1947 and is classified as an Iron, IIIAB — one of the most common and well-studied iron meteorite groups, originating from the core of a differentiated asteroid. Total known mass is a minimum of 760 kg, catalogued in Buchwald’s authoritative Handbook of Iron Meteorites (1975, Vol. 3, p. 1327) and held in collections at the Smithsonian Institution and the Natural History Museum, London.
This specimen is a natural individual weighing 58.3 grams, measuring 45 × 30 × 32 mm. The surface displays the characteristic heavily oxidized and sculpted texture of Wolf Creek irons — a warm ochre-brown patina with dark metallic highlights and deeply etched regmaglypts formed during atmospheric flight billions of years after crystallizing in the core of a long-destroyed asteroid.
Classification Data
Classification: Iron, IIIAB
Find Year: 1947
Location: Wolf Creek, Western Australia, Australia
