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4 kg. Stone
TKW 35 kg. Observed fall 20 November 2016, Aiquile, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Ziyao writes:
From the MetBul:
History: A bright fireball appeared over Aiquile, Cochabamba district of Bolivia, on 20 November 2016, 17:57 local time (UTC-4). Stones fell in a strewn field of at least 12 × 2 km (northeasterly direction) in the following Aiquile communities: Tablamayu, Panamá, Chawar Mayu, Chaqo K’asa, Barbechos and Cruz Loma. The main bolide fragmentation occurred over the Tablamayu community, 12 km north of Aiquile. In the Cruz Loma community, C. Veizaga witnessed the fall of the largest stone (36.3 kg) about 500 m from him. He recovered the stone and in the following day the local Aiquile government (Luiz L. Arnez, Marco Cardona, Franz Navia, William Rodriguez, Jesus Yave) took the stone to the city museum. In the Panamá community, Roberto Soto witnessed the fall and recovered two other fragments (565 g, 2.2 kg). SERGEOMIN (Miguel A. Muriel, G. Villca, A. Perez), UMSA (Gonzalo Pereira), Brazil NM collaborators (Andre R. Moutinho, José M. Monzon) and S. Medina found additional fragments in the Panamá community. A. Moutinho found a 98 g fragment which was used for classification.
Petrography: Medium shock stage (S3), chondritic texture and mineralogy and mineral compositions of an equilibrated ordinary chondrite. Porphyritic olivine and radial pyroxene chondrules dominate. |
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
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Andi Koppelt 10/3/2018 2:07:04 PM |
Surely a centerpiece within a top collection. Congrats, Ziyao, for this big fresh beauty! |
Matthias 10/3/2018 1:41:14 PM |
In any case: a true extraterrestrical Chinese scholar's stone : - ) |
Jack 10/3/2018 7:14:21 AM |
Holy cow! I cant imagine what this must have cost. You're a lucky man. |
Bernd Pauli 10/3/2018 4:52:36 AM |
Amazing shape, excellent fusion crust. Wonderful chondrite! Thanks for sharing! |
Matthias Baermann 10/3/2018 4:34:21 AM |
What a wonderful stone of this spectacular fall in Bolivia. Big, beautifully elongated shape, crust like black velvet. There seem to be some traces of adherent soil/sand too?
Thanks for introducing, Ziyao. |
Stephen Amara 10/3/2018 4:30:32 AM |
wow that is a really impressive meteorite. The shape of the stone and quality of the fusion crust is outstanding. Thanks for sharing!! |
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