Case file · Cosmic event
Cranbourne meteorites
Huge iron meteorites near Cranbourne, Victoria, known to settlers by the 1850s and recognised as meteorites around 1860. After a tug-of-war between Melbourne and London, the 3.5-tonne main mass reached the British Museum in 1865.
1860 CE · -38.10, 145.28 · status: official
The account
The Bunurong people knew the meteorites as Kuunhdurt Laang, and the site is part of their oral tradition. Cranbourne is the second-largest meteorite found in Australia, after Mundrabilla.