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T1 The Puerto Lapice eucrite fall phenomenon
A1 Madiedo Gil, José María
A1 Trigo Rodríguez, Josep María
A1 Llorca, Jordi
A1 Borovicka, Jiri
A1 Izquierdo Gómez, Jaime
A1 Zamorano, J.
A1 Ocaña Gónzalez, Francisco
AB The fall of the Puerto Lápice eucriteoccurred in the afternoon of May 10, 2007,17h57m20±2s UTC. This impressive daylight bolidewas witnessed by thousands of people from Spain, andis being carefully studied in the framework of theSpanish Meteor and Fireball Network (SPMN) in asimilar way that we previously did after the fall of theVillalbeto de la Peña L6 ordinary chondrite [1,2]. Unfortunately, there is no video records to our knowledgeof the Puerto Lápice event, but some eyewitnesseswere able to take pictures of the persistent train from atleast two different locations. Nocturn astrometric calibrations from both places have been obtained, andthese data together within situtrajectory measurements with theodolite of casual eyewitnesses have allowed to estimate the atmospheric trajectory and theradiant with reasonable accuracy. A preliminary trajectory reconstruction by the SPMN obtained only twoweeks after the event helpedto recover the first meteorite specimens. The meteorite was presented on June11, 2007 during the International Conference Meteoroids 2007 in Barcelona. In addition to the fall phenomena, the interest of this bolide lies in the eucrite natureof the recovered meteorite,that has been recently reported in the Meteoritical Bulletin [3]. Of the 200eucrites known until 2000, only 25 correspond to observed falls, but the fall circumstances are poorlyknown except in few remarkable cases like e.g. Pasamonte.
YR 2008
FD 2008
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3044
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NO Comunicación presentada a las "39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference", celebradas en League City, Texas del 10 al 14 de marzo de 2008.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
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