Country:
Costa Rica
State/District:
Date of fall/find:
Fell 1857, April 01 nighttime
Total known weight:
1 kg
Number of pieces:
unknown (many)
Type:
Stone. Ordinary chondrite, gas rich, brecciated
Meteoritical Bulletin record: Click here
After the appearance of a fireball and detonations, many stones were found, the largest weighing about 1kg, M.H.Hey, Cat. Met., 1966, p.198. Described and analyzed, I.Domeyko, Anal. Univ. Chile, Santiago, 1859, 16, p.235. Listed, O.Buchner, Die Meteoriten in Samml., Leipzig, 1863, p.93. Olivine Fa18, B.Mason, GCA, 1963, 27, p.1011. Gas-rich, L.Schultz and H.Kruse, He, Ne and Ar in meteorites: a data compilation. Mainz, 1983. Magnetic susceptibility, P.Rochette et al., MAPS, 2003, 38, p.251.