Daule
Seen to fall in 2008 in Ecuador · 6.6 kg recovered · L5
Daule is the only observed fall recorded in Ecuador. It has no other recorded fall within 701 km; only 16 falls in the record sit farther from their nearest neighbour.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 1.871° S, 79.958° W
The map is centred on Daule. Rings every 1,000 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Daule is Cali, 701 km to the north-east. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Daule.
What L5 means
L5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Daule ranks 30th of the 76 L5 falls. The nearest other L5 fall is Valera in Venezuela, 1,617 km away. In date order among L5 falls, the one before Daule is Jodiya (2006, India) and the one after is Mifflin (2010, the United States).
The 2000s
Daule is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists eight other falls in 2008, among them Sulagiri in India, Tamdakht in Morocco, Buzzard Coulee in Canada.