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| Basic information | Name: Piancaldoli This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1968 Country: Italy Mass:  13.1 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 24 approved meteorites classified as LL3.4. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE PIANCALDOLI, ITALY, STONY METEORITE Name: PIANCALDOLI Place of fall: Piancaldoli, near Florence, Italy. 44° 14' 39"N, 0° 57' 00"W from Mt. Mario, Rome. Date of fall: August 10, 1968, 8:14 p.m. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L3). Number of individual specimens: 3 Total weight: 13 g Circumstances of fall: A fireball was observed over Yugoslavia and central and northern Italy. Explosions accompanied break-up. Three fragments were found on the roof of a house in Piancaldoli. Source: Marcello Carapezza and Mario Nuccio (1971) "The Piancaldoli Meteorite" (Abstract). Program, 34th Annual Meeting, The Meteoritical Society, Tubingen. Author's address: Universita' di Palermo, Instituto di Geochimica Applicata, Via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites from Emilia-Romagna, Italy (plus 3 unapproved names) This is 1 of 42 approved meteorites from Italy (plus 23 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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