Sightings1969

Allende fireball showers meteorites over Chihuahua

When: 8 Feb 1969
Where: Pueblito de Allende, Mexico
Sources: 1 public source

A stone from the Allende shower that fell over Chihuahua, Mexico, in February 1969 H. Raab, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A fireball at about 07:05 GMT broke up over Chihuahua and scattered about two tonnes of stones across a field roughly 48 by 7 km near Pueblito de Allende. The carbonaceous chondrite became one of the most studied meteorites in history.

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OtherAllende (opens in a new tab)The Open University Virtual Microscope

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