* Astronomy

Date of fall or discovery: FALL, September 11, 1954, 21 hrs.
Class and type: STONY.
Number of individual specimens: Many specimens (meteorite shower):
Total weight: Unknown.

Circumstances of the fall or discovery:  After intensive brilliance and a noise resembling a hailstorm, many stones meteorites were fallen; the trajectory of fall was from east to west. In the following morning, stones were found scattered, some of them in the yards of the houses, and in the corrals. Several stones remained in hands of particulars of the zone; specimen, some 600 grs. in the University of Cuyo, Mendoza; an individual specimen, 165 grs., in the L. O. Giacomelli Private Collection of Meteo­rites (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

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