Monte_Milone_(meteorite)

Monte Milone (meteorite)

Monte Milone (meteorite)

Meteorite

Monte Milone is meteorite that fell in 1846 in central Italy.

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History

Monte Milone fell on 8 May 1846, in Pollenza in the central Italian region of Marche. It was found by the mineralogist Giovanni Strüver and then bought and described by Monsignor Lavinio de' Medici Spada(1846).[2]

Composition and classification

It is a L5 type ordinary chondrite.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Monte Milone
  2. [2]
    (in Italian) History of Mineralogic Museum of "La Sapienza" University, Rome Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine

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