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Daule
Basic information Name: Daule
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 2008
Country: Ecuador
Mass:help 6.58 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8862 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 17 Feb 2010
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Writeup from MB 98:

Daule        1°52’15.2"S, 79°57’27.2"W

Guayas, Ecuador

Fell: 23 March 2008, ~9 AM local time (UT-5)

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5)

History: People in Daule and the surrounding region heard a series of loud detonations and, moments later, two stones were seen to fall. A single stone fell outside a home next to the Daule River. The homeowner was less than 5 m from the stone, which penetrated nearly 1 m into the mud and bounced out, landing on the surface. He picked up the stone moments later. Another stone was reported to have impacted into a flooded rice paddy and sent a fountain of water several meters in the air; this stone has not been recovered.

Physical characteristics: The recovered stone weighed 6.58 kg.

Petrography (Jeff Grossman, USGS): A shocked ordinary chondrite with abundant melt veins; shock stage, S4; weathering grade, W0.

Geochemistry: Olivine, Fa24.5±0.5 (n=41); low-Ca pyroxene, Fs20.8±0.5 Wo1.4±0.2 (n=12).

Classification: L5 chondrite.

Specimens: 20 g, SI; main mass, MFarmer.

Data from:
  MB98
  Table 1
  Line 3:
State/Prov/County:Guayas
Date:23 March 2008
Latitude:1°52'15.2"S
Longitude:79°57'27.2"W
Mass (g):6580
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W0
Fayalite (mol%):24.5±0.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.8±0.5
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.2
Classifier:J. Grossman, USGS
Type spec mass (g):20.37
Type spec location:SI
Main mass:MFarmer
Comments:submitted by Jeff Grossman
Institutions
   and collections
SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
MFarmer: Michael Farmer, P.O. Box 86059, Tucson, AZ 85754-6059, United States; Website (private address)
USGS: US Geological Survey, 954 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, United States (institutional address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 98, MAPS 45, 1530-1551 (2010)
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Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (1° 52' 15"S, 79° 57' 27"W)

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     This is the only approved meteorite from Guayas, Ecuador
     This is the only approved meteorite from Ecuador
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