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The Pasamonte eucrite (Figure 1) fell at 5 AM on the morning of March 24th, 1933, and was seen by numerous individuals in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico before coming to rest near Pasamonte, New Mexico (Nininger, 1934; 1936; Figures 2a, 2b). The detonations associated with the meteorite could be felt and heard for one hundred miles on either side of its flight path, and the fall was seen by individuals up to three hundred miles away (Nininger, 1936). Varying witness reports indicated several bright fireballs followed by an extremely luminous "after-glow" and a lingering, 200-mile long dust cloud that was visible for up to 90 minutes after the meteor had passed (Nininger, 1934; Figure 3). Seventy-five stones were collected in the two years following the fall, with a 2 total weight of 3-4 kg (Foshag, 1938); the largest stone weighed less than 300 grams (Nininger, 1936).
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The Pasamonte (Eucrite) meteorite fell in New Mexico, USA, on the 24th February, 1933.
A total mass of 5.1 kg was recovered.

36° 13'N, 103° 24'W



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On March 24, 1933, a meteor fell from the sky at Pasamonte, New Mexico, in the United States.
The large Pasamonte meteoroid  produced a meteorite fall that totalled only 3-4 kg.
The meteorites are an example of the class of fine-grained stony meteorites known as eucrites (calcic achondrites), which are part of the HED meteorite grouping.  The eucrites are typically basalts that cooled quickly as lava flowed onto the crust or surface of the parent body. Eucrites are inferred to derive from a large asteroid. Chromites in Pasamonte are richer in Al and lower in Ti than in other eucrites, which are presumed to have derived from the asteroid Vesta.


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