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| Basic information | Name: La Criolla This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1985 Country: Argentina Mass:  45 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12281 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 64:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE LA CRIOLLA, ARGENTINA, STONY METEORITE Name: LA CRIOLLA Place of fall: E. of Estancion La Criolla, 15 km WNW. of Concordia, Entre Rios province, Argentina. 31°14'S., 58°10'W Date of fall: 6 January, 1985, 1815 hrs. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Number of individual specimens: Not reported, but many. Total weight: 35 kg, approximately Circumstances of fall: After a bright fireball and many detonations, tens of meteorites fell over a 7 x 10 km ellipsoid area E. of Estancion La Criolla. Three fragments recovered weighed 6.1 kg, 1.95 kg and 750 g. Source: SEAN Bulletin, 1985, 10, no. 2, 16. The 6.1 kg stone is now in Los Angeles, University of California. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 64, Meteoritics 21, 309-313 (1986)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Entre Rios, Argentina This is 1 of 81 approved meteorites from Argentina (plus 9 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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