Santa Rosa
A find, recorded in 1810 in Colombia · 825 kg recovered · Iron, IC
Santa Rosa ranks 55th by recovered mass among the 30,841 meteorite finds with a complete record in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the only find with a complete record in Colombia. Only five observed falls recovered more.
- Group
- Iron meteorites
- Recorded position
- 5.917° N, 73.000° W
Rings every 500 km.
Seen-to-fall neighbours
Valera, 460 km to the north-east, is the nearest meteorite that someone saw arrive (1972). In 1810, the year Santa Rosa entered the record, three meteorites were seen to fall: Charsonville in France, Mooresfort in Ireland, Caswell County in the United States.
Santa Rosa among other finds
In the record, nine finds carry the label Iron, IC, and no observed fall does. No observed fall in the record belongs to the iron IC group. Among the other giant finds, Santa Apolonia lies closest: 3,112 km away. Worldwide, the finds just above and below it are Bondoc (889 kg) and Brahin (823 kg).