Monte Milone is meteorite that fell in 1846 in central Italy.
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
- ^ Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Monte Milone
- ^ (in Italian) History of Mineralogic Museum of "La Sapienza" University, Rome Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine