Daylight fireball over Spain drops the Puerto Lapice meteorite

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A fragment of the Puerto Lapice meteorite in a museum display
A piece of the Puerto Lapice meteorite in Madrid's Museo Geominero PePeEfe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A brilliant fireball moving north across Spain shortly before 6 p.m. local time was tracked by the Spanish Fireball Network. Pieces of the meteorite, a brecciated eucrite, were recovered in olive groves near Puerto Lapice in Ciudad Real province.

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  1. OtherPuerto Lapice (opens in a new tab)Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University / 2013-01-30

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