Quesa

Seen to fall in 1898 in Spain · 11 kg recovered · Iron, IAB-ung

Quesa is the earliest of the three Iron, IAB-ung falls. It is one of 48 iron meteorites among the observed falls.

Group: Iron meteorites
Recorded position: 39.000° N, 0.667° W

The map is centred on Quesa. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Quesa is Molina, 107 km to the south-west. Within 250 km lie five other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Molina	1858	H5	144 kg	107 km south-west
2	Los Martinez	1894	L6	25 g	112 km south
3	Cabezo de Mayo	1870	L/LL6	25 kg	121 km south
4	Olmedilla de Alarcón	1929	H5	40 kg	139 km north-west
5	Puerto Lápice	2007	Eucrite-br	500 g	249 km west
6	Madrid	1896	L6	400 g	305 km north-west

What Iron, IAB-ung means

Iron, IAB-ung is the label for an iron meteorite of chemical group IAB-ung, defined by its nickel and trace-element content. By recovered mass Quesa ranks second of the 3 Iron, IAB-ung falls. The nearest other Iron, IAB-ung fall is Udei Station in Nigeria, 3,562 km away. In date order among Iron, IAB-ung falls, the one after is Pitts (1921, the United States).

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 48 falls in the group iron meteorites.

Quesa in Spain’s record

In date order Quesa is number 15 of the 22 falls recorded in Spain, which run from 1773 to 2007. By recovered mass Quesa comes eighth of 22 there. The fall recorded before Quesa in Spain is Madrid (1896); the next is Olivenza (1924).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1890s

Quesa is one of 51 falls dated to the 1890s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1898, among them Andover in the United States, Mariaville in the United States, Zaisho in Japan.