Italian meteorites

Baldanza, B.

doi:10.1180/minmag.1965.035.269.24

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“…It has not been possible to verify the presence of 32 g in Harvard, 72.5 g in the Leningrad University nor 100 g in the Museum dell'È cole des Mines in Paris, reported by Baldanza (1965) and by Baldanza and Triscari (1978).…”

Section: Locations Of Various Samples Of the Vigarano Meteoritementioning

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History of the Vigarano meteorite (Emilia-Romagna, Italy) and recovery of an important part of the main mass

Trevisani¹

2011

Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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The Vigarano meteorite fell to Earth on the 22 Jan 1910, near the village of Vigarano Pieve, west of Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna region, Italy). The main mass weighed 11.5 kg and was found immediately, whilst a second part of 4.5 kg was recovered weeks later, a few hundred metres from the main mass. Until recently, only 4-5 kg of the original mass was preserved in different museums around the world. The rediscovery of 7 kg of material belonging to the Cariani mass increased the total known mass of the Vigarano meteorite to 12 kg. The Vigarano meteorite is a type 3 carbonaceous chondrite [CV3; reduced subtype CV(R)] and it is one of the most primitive examples of solid material from our solar system.

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Section: Locations Of Various Samples Of the Vigarano Meteoritementioning

confidence: 93%

History of the Vigarano meteorite (Emilia-Romagna, Italy) and recovery of an important part of the main mass

Trevisani¹

2011

Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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“…During the update of the catalog in 2014, we discovered a piece of the rare Mineo pallasite. In detail, the Mineo pallasite was acquired by the Department of Earth Sciences of University of Perugia (Italy) in 1965 and it was roughly described by Baldanza (1965) [39] and Nagata (1979) [40]. At the present, the sample hosted by University of Perugia (Italy) is the only known sample available in public collections [41].…”

Section: The Mineo Pallasite: a Unique Samplementioning

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The Achievements of the RockStar Group (Perugia) on Astrophysical Modelling and Pallasite Geochemistry

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In the present work we summarize the first achievements of the RockStar Group of the Department of Physics and Geology (at the University of Perugia, Italy), which is made of a strict collaboration between Physicists and Geologists on astrophysical and planetological studies. The RockStar Group acts on two research lines: (i) astrophysical modeling and (ii) mineralogical and geochemical studies of meteorites. In the first part of the article we review the recent results concerning the development of theoretical modeling of nucleosynthesis and mixing process in asymptotic giant branch. In the second part we report (1) the catalog of the Meteorite collection of University of Perugia and (2) major and trace elements mapping, performed through EPMA and LA-ICP-MS, of the Mineo pallasite, a unique sample hosted by the collection. The new data constrain the Mineo meteorite among the Main Group Pallasites and support the hypothesis of the “early giant impact” formation.

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“…The second fall of a meteorite on Sicily (Baldanza, 1965) happened at about 13.00 (Rome time) on Saturday 16 July 1955, near Carnaro, a village some 2 miles west of Messina. A man, who was in his house at the time, heard a sudden thud followed by a thundering roar; on inspecting the area around his home, he noted that a low pile of crushed rocks, prepared for road repairs, had been hit by a blackish stone about the size of a pineapple.…”

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