Peña Blanca Spring
Seen to fall in 1946 in the United States · 70 kg recovered · Aubrite
Peña Blanca Spring is one of 19 other achondrites among the observed falls. It is the second-heaviest of the four Aubrite falls recorded in the United States.
- Group
- Other achondrites
- Recorded position
- 30.125° N, 103.117° W
The map is centred on Peña Blanca Spring. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Peña Blanca Spring is Monahans (1998), 167 km to the north. Within 250 km lie two other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monahans (1998) | 1998 | H5 | 2.6 kg | 167 km north |
| 2 | Malaga | 1933 | Ordinary chondrite | 150 g | 247 km north |
| 3 | Richland Springs | 1980 | Ordinary chondrite | 1.9 kg | 410 km east |
| 4 | Allende | 1969 | CV3 | 2 tonnes | 412 km south-west |
| 5 | Blanket | 1909 | L6 | 5.1 kg | 450 km north-east |
| 6 | Portales Valley | 1998 | H6 | 71 kg | 451 km north |
What Aubrite means
Aubrite is the label for an aubrite, an enstatite-rich achondrite. By recovered mass Peña Blanca Spring ranks second of the 9 Aubrite falls. The nearest other Aubrite fall is Norton County in the United States, 1,103 km away. In date order among Aubrite falls, the one before Peña Blanca Spring is Pesyanoe (1933, Russia) and the one after is Norton County (1948, the United States).
Peña Blanca Spring in the United States’s record
In date order Peña Blanca Spring is number 100 (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 Peña Blanca Spring comes 15th of 146 there. The fall recorded before Peña Blanca Spring in the United States is Atoka (1945); the next is Walters (1946).
The 1940s
Peña Blanca Spring is one of 55 falls dated to the 1940s. Elsewhere, the record lists three other falls in 1946: Krymka in Ukraine, Bursa in Turkey, Krasnyi Klyuch in Russia.