VALERA METEORITE — THE ONLY DOCUMENTED METEORITE TO HAVE KILLED
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VALERA METEORITE — THE ONLY DOCUMENTED METEORITE TO HAVE KILLED

L5Trujillo, Venezuela (9°19' N, 70°37' W)

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VALERA METEORITE THE ONLY DOCUMENTED METEORITE TO HAVE KILLED
L5
Trujillo, Venezuela (9°19' N, 70°37' W)
One face is cut and polished. The multi-hued variegated matrix is embedded with sparkling metallic grains, and a single large metallic inclusion is at the left margin. Blurred chondrule boundaries evidence heating on its parent asteroid long before its brush with Earth and a cow. Modern cutting.
75 x 44 x 32 mm (3 x 1¾ x 1½ in.)
160g
来源
Dr. Ignacio Ferrin, Merida, Venezuela

Accompanied by a copy of the signed affidavit attesting to the circumstances of the Valera event.
出版
Kusuno, H., Fukuoka, T., Matsuzaki, H. (2013) “Simple relationship between Al production rate and major elemental composition of meteorite samples.” Geochemical Journal, 47(1), 83-88.
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An echo in miniature of the devastating asteroid believed to have killed off the dinosaurs, it was on the evening of October 15, 1972 that farmhands in Trujillo, Venezuela were startled by an inexplicable sonic boom. The next day an exotic rock was found alongside a cow’s carcass whose neck and clavicle had been pulverized. It was obvious to the farm’s owner, physician Dr. Argimiro Gonzalez, what had occurred, but he didn’t give it a second thought since mayhem from falling meteorites seemed intuitive. An unplanned steak dinner was enjoyed that night and the celestial boulder was used as a doorstop. More than a decade later scientists confirmed what Dr. Gonzalez had long presumed. However, what Dr. Gonzalez didn’t know was that this was the first and still the only documented fatal meteorite impact. When Dr. Ignacio Ferrin, an astronomer at the University of the Andes, learned of the act of bovicide that had occurred at Valera, he visited the Gonzalez estate and left with an affidavit affirming the aforementioned events as well as the meteorite itself.

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