Rantila, Gujarat India.

Fell 17 August 2022

About 6 kilos total known weight. 

 Hammer stones. Two stones fell. One smashed a tile on a patio of a house. The second much larger stone fell 10 km away cutting a large limb off a tree. The fall was near the Pakistan border. 

This meteorite is friable, but not bad. Extremely clast-rich complex breccia.

Every piece exhibits different attributes. There are large green crystals. Pink crystals. Purple crystals. In long wave UV it fluoresces more than any known meteorite. 

 No more stones have been found despite 5 weeks of intensive searching. Massive flooding covered the entire area for weeks after the fall. Everything was under water. The soil was soft and wet when it fell so all stones penetrated under the ground. With the flooding any other stones were lost. 

 This is the 11th Aubrite fall. 

 These pieces were all recovered within minutes of the fall.

Name: Rantila 

Type: Aubrite 

Fell 17 August 2022

Location Gujarat, India

TKW: 6 Kg

Weight: 0.28 g

Crusted fragment,

Light brown fusion crust

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