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244 grams.   L6

TKW 45 kg. Observed fall 6 January 1985, Entre Rios, Argentina.


Herbert writes:

The stone shown here is a 244g individual that was originally kept by the farmer who recovered it. Not until many years after the fall, it was sold to an Argentinian amateur astronomer. It is shown here on a copy of a strewnfield map drawn by Bob Haag. Read Bob's story here

Description:

After a bright fireball was seen and loud detonations were heared in the late afternoon hours, a shower of meteoritic stones rained down on the village of La Criolla in Argentia on this day, 32 years ago. A large number of L6 chondrites, totalling about 45 kg, were recovered from the elliptical strewnfield, 10 km x 7 km in size. A 750g stone crashed trough the roof of a farm house, and another stone of 1950g buried itself on the town's soccer court. Many of the recovered stones were bought on site by Robert Haag, and distributed to collections around the world.