1 February 2019

Viñales

Pinar del Río, Cuba

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  • Human-verified · Marc Fries
  • Meteorites recovered
Fireball (UTC)
not established no instrumental or published time yet
Radar searched
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Meteorites
Viñales (L6) Meteoritical Bulletin entry
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Dark flight

No dark-flight estimate yet for this fall.

Human identification

The radar signatures of this fall were identified by hand by Marc Fries (NASA ARES, Johnson Space Center). Read the original report (archived copy).

Meteorites

Publications

Baziotis I., Xydous S., Papoutsa A., et al. (2023) Investigation of the shocked Viñales ordinary chondrite (L6) meteorite fall – Implications for shock classification, fragmentation, and collision dynamics. Icarus 390, 115326

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