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A chondrite remains so far is the only one meteorite Ecuadorian recuperated (Fig. 7.1), and it is a witnessed fall which makes it very special. A noisy explosion was heard along the Daule river on Sunday March 23, 2008, at 09:30 h. After a violent shock wave, four stones were seen to fall separated by 4 km each one.The main stone of 4 kg was found in a farm in a pit of about 1 m in depth and 30 cm in diameter. A second fragment fell on a river at a place called El Pedregal, and the others were lost.
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Acevedo, R.D., Rocca, M.C.L., García, V.M. (2014). Ecuador. In: Catalogue of Meteorites from South America. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01925-3_7
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