Name: LA CRIOLLA Place of fall: E. of Estancion La Criolla, 15 km WNW. of Concordia, Entre Rios province, Argentina. 31°14'S., 58°10'W Date of fall: 6 January, 1985, 1815 hrs. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Number of individual specimens: Not reported, but many. Total weight: 35 kg, approximately Circumstances of fall: After a bright fireball and many detonations, tens of meteorites fell over a 7 x 10 km ellipsoid area E. of Estancion La Criolla. Three fragments recovered weighed 6.1 kg, 1.95 kg and 750 g. Source: SEAN Bulletin, 1985, 10, no. 2, 16. The 6.1 kg stone is now in Los Angeles, University of California. Source
On 6 January 1985 after a bright fireball and many detonations, tens of crusted stones fell over a 7 x 10 km elliptical area E of Estancion La Criolla, Argentina. One 750 gram stone crashed though the roof of a farmhouse. Read more
At 18:15, on the 6th January, a large meteor broke up over La Criolla, Entre Rios province Argentina. Meteorites were found over a 7 x 10 km scatterfield East of Estancion La Criolla, with one large piece hitting a farmhouse. Analysis revealed that the fall was of an ordinary L6 Olivine-hypersthene chondrite.