Aubres

Seen to fall in 1836 in France · 800 g recovered · Aubrite

Aubres is the earliest of the nine Aubrite falls. It is one of 19 other achondrites among the observed falls. Mornans came down only 24 km to the north, in 1875.

Group: Other achondrites
Recorded position: 44.383° N, 5.167° E

The map is centred on Aubres. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

Within 250 km lie 15 other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Mornans	1875	H5	1.3 kg	24 km north
2	Laborel	1871	H5	3.8 kg	35 km east
3	Apt	1803	L6	3.2 kg	60 km south
4	Lancon	1897	H6	7 kg	71 km south
5	Juvinas	1821	Eucrite-mmict	91 kg	78 km north-west
6	Alais	1806	CI1	6 kg	91 km west

What Aubrite means

Aubrite is the label for an aubrite, an enstatite-rich achondrite. Aubres has the smallest recovered mass of the 9 Aubrite falls. The nearest other Aubrite fall is Mayo Belwa in Nigeria, 3,994 km away. In date order among Aubrite falls, the one after is Bishopville (1843, the United States).

Dark ticks: 9 Aubrite falls, median 4.8 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Aubres in France’s record

In date order Aubres is number 21 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 58 falls recorded in France, which run from 1491 to 2002. By recovered mass Aubres comes 47th of 58 there. The fall recorded before Aubres in France is Vouillé (1831); the next is Mascombes (1836).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1830s

Aubres is one of 21 falls dated to the 1830s. Elsewhere, the record lists one other fall in 1836: Macau in Brazil.