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Asco | |||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Asco This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1805 Country: France Mass: 41 g | ||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 6736 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||
Comments: | Revised 2 Jan 2020: Added fall info | ||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB online:
Asco
History (P.-M. Pelé, meteor-center.com) : A meteorite fell on November 22, 1805, near the village of Asco in Corsica. A stone weighing 42 g was kept in the village church until the Marquis de Drée acquired it after 1814. Then it was sold to the mineralogist Heuland in 1826. The Asco meteorite is later mentioned in the NHMV collection in 1838. It is assumed that the meteorite fell between Capu Larghia and the Punta Minuta, two mountains south of Asco. It is unclear how a small, 42 g stone could be found in such a landscape, unless whoever picked it up witnessed the stone to fall, or the initial mass was larger. See also Gattacceca et al. (2007). | ||||||||||||
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Institutions and collections |
NHMV: Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria, Austria; Website (institutional address; updated 18 Jan 2019) |
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References: | Never published in the Meteoritical Bulletin
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Corse, France This is 1 of 78 approved meteorites from France (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||
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