The Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite fall: I. Fireball energy, meteorite recovery, strewn field, and petrography

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 795-804

  Llorca, Jordi ^a,b   Trigo Rodríguez, Josep M ^c   Ortiz, José L ^d   Docobo, José A ^e   García Guinea, Javier ^f   Castro Tirado, Alberto J ^d   Rubin, Alan E ^c   Eugster, Otto ^g   Edwards, Wayne ^h   Laubenstein, Matthias ⁱ   Casanova, Ignasi ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^f MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

ⁱ LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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EID: 26244455905     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00155.x     Document Type: Article

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