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Synonym(s): Cerro Cosina; Cocina; Dolores Hidalgo; Loma de la Cosina
Approx. recovered weight: 1.2 kg
A stone of about 1.2kg was seen to fall after detonations and appearance of a fireball, O. Buchner ((1866)
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Cosina meteorite, classified as a chondrite of olivine and bronzite H5, fell down near Dolores Hidalgo city, Guanajuato (21° 10' N 100° 52' W) in January of 1844. It is an unusual ordinary chondrite with a highly porous lithology
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The Cosina (H5) meteorite fell in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico, at 11:00 a.m. on the ??th January, 1844.
A total mass of 1.2 kg was recovered.

Description: Fragment with one sawed surface, colour dark gray

21° 10'N, 100° 52'W



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