Puerto Lápice
Seen to fall in 2007 in Spain · 500 g recovered · Eucrite-br
Puerto Lápice is the most recent of the 22 falls recorded in Spain. It is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed Eucrite-br.
- Recorded position
- 39.350° N, 3.517° W
The map is centred on Puerto Lápice. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Puerto Lápice is Madrid, 120 km to the north. Within 250 km lie six other recorded falls.
What Eucrite-br means
Eucrite-br is the label for a eucrite, a basaltic rock from the crust of a melted parent body.
Puerto Lápice in Spain’s record
By recovered mass Puerto Lápice comes 17th of 22 there. The fall recorded before Puerto Lápice in Spain is Villalbeto de la Peña, in 2004.
The 2000s
Puerto Lápice is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 2007, among them Chergach in Mali, Mahadevpur in India, Didim in Turkey.