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2004-01-04 : Villalbeto de la Peña (Spain)

Spatial and Temporal Informations

Location of fall
Villalbeto de la Peña (Palencia, Spain)
Coordinates
42°48' N, -4°40' E
Date of fall
January 4, 2004 17h 46mn 45s ± 2s LT
January 4, 2004 16h 46mn 45s ± 2s UT
Initial velocity
16.9 ± 0.4 km/s
Start height of bolide
47 km
Start Coordinates
42°32'6" N, -5°2'42" E
Terminal height of bolide
22.2 km
Terminal Coordinates
42°50'36" N, -4°42'40" E
Fireball terminal velocity
7.8 ± 0.3 km/s
Trajectory slope (// horizontal)
29.0 ± 0.6 °
Ground path of the fireball
130 km

Physical and kinetics Informations

Maximum absolute magnitude
-18 ( 28 km of height )
Pre-atmospheric mass of the meteoroid
600 ± 200 kg
Corresponding size (diameter)
0.8 m m
Kinetic energy
0.02 kt TNT
Total known weight (TKW)
5.2 kg (until 2005 )
33 fragments
Density
3.42 g cm-3
Cosmic-ray exposure age
48 ± 5 Million years

Orbital

Semimajor axis (a)
2.3 ± 0.2 UA
Inclination (i)
0.0 ± 0.2 °
Eccentricity (e)
0.63 ± 0.04
Longitude of ascending nodet (W)
283.6712 °
Argument of perihelion (w)
132.3 ± 1.5 °
Perihelion distance (q)
0.860 ± 0.007 UA
Aphelion distance (Q)
3.7 ± 0.4 UA
Orbital period (T)
3.5 ± 0.5 years
TXT_VUE_DESSUS
Vue parallele au grand axe
Vue parallele à la ligne des noeuds

Reference

The Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite fall: II. Determination of atmospheric trajectory and orbit
Josep M. TRIGO-RODRÍGUEZ, Jirí BOROVICKA, Pavel SPURNÝ, José L. ORTIZ, José A. DOCOBO, Alberto J. CASTRO-TIRADO, and Jordi LLORCA
Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45 (2006), pp. 505-517
The Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite fall: I. Fireball energy, meteorite recovery, strewn field, and petrography
Jordi LLORCA1, Josep M. TRIGO-RODRIGUEZ, José L. ORTIZ, José A. DOCOBO, Javier GARCIA-GUINEA, Alberto J. CASTRO-TIRADO, Alan E. RUBIN, Otto EUGSTER, Wayne EDWARDS, Matthias LAUBENSTEIN, and Ignasi CAS
Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40 (2005), pp. 795-804