| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Parambu | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Parambu This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1967 Country: Brazil Mass:  2 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 3315 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as LL5. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE PARAMBU, BRAZIL, STONY METEORITE Name: PARAMBU Place of fall: Parambu, Ceara State, Brazil. 6°14'S, 40°42'W. Date of fall: July 24, 1967, about 7 p.m. local time. Class and type: Stone. Brecciated olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: About 30, a complete individual of 595 g, 4 stones in the hundreds of gram range and a number of stones from 50 g to a few grams each. Total weight: More than 1 kg (?) Circumstances of fall: A shower of meteorites fell after the appearance of a fireball traveling from southwest to northeast. The sound of detonations was heard. Sources: A. Barreto, Z. Fonseca de Mello, G. R. Levi-Donati and G. P. Sighinolfi. 1973. The Meteorite Shower of Parambu, Ceara State, Brazil: Mineralogy and Petrology (Abstract). Meteoritics 8, 324. M. Shima, G. P. Sighinolfi, K. P. Jochum and H. Hintenberger. 1973. The Parambu Meteorite: Bulk Chemistry and Heavy Trace Metals by Spark Mass Spectroscopy (Abstract). Meteoritics 8, 440-441. | ||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
| ||||||||||||||||
| Photos: |
| ||||||||||||||||
Geography:
|
Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Ceara, Brazil This is 1 of 88 approved meteorites from Brazil (plus 6 unapproved names) (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proximity search: | |||||||||||||||||