Pasamonte
Seen to fall in 1933 in the United States · 5.1 kg recovered · Eucrite-pmict
Pasamonte is the heaviest of the seven Eucrite-pmict falls. It is the heaviest of the three Eucrite-pmict falls recorded in the United States.
- Recorded position
- 36.217° N, 103.400° W
The map is centred on Pasamonte. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Pasamonte is Portales Valley, 227 km to the south. Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portales Valley | 1998 | H6 | 71 kg | 227 km south |
| 2 | Canon City | 1973 | H6 | 1.4 kg | 299 km north-west |
| 3 | Modoc (1905) | 1905 | L6 | 35 kg | 325 km north-east |
| 4 | Elbert | 1998 | LL6 | 681 g | 353 km north |
| 5 | Leedey | 1943 | L6 | 52 kg | 367 km east |
| 6 | Aztec | 1938 | L6 | 2.8 kg | 416 km west |
What Eucrite-pmict means
Eucrite-pmict is the label for a eucrite, a basaltic rock from the crust of a melted parent body. The nearest other Eucrite-pmict fall is Petersburg in the United States, 1,514 km away. In date order among Eucrite-pmict falls, the one before Pasamonte is Malvern (1933, South Africa) and the one after is Macibini (1936, South Africa).
Pasamonte in the United States’s record
In date order Pasamonte is number 82 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. By recovered mass Pasamonte comes 51st of 146 there. The fall recorded before Pasamonte in the United States is Malaga (1933); the next is Sioux County (1933).
The 1930s
Pasamonte is one of 88 falls dated to the 1930s. Elsewhere, the record lists 12 other falls in 1933, among them Pervomaisky in Russia, Zemaitkiemis in Lithuania, Chajari in Argentina.