Campos Sales, L5
Campos Sales was a witnessed fall in 1991, but it wasn’t widely reported or known until several years later.
Scorzelli et al., published a report on the fall in MAPS in 1998: The Campos Sales Brazil meteorite: A lightly shocked L5 chondrite fall.
This 2,034 gram individual is one of the larger stones recovered. From Robert Elliott:
“This Campos Sales individual was picked up by a local resident and put to a more practical use. Having no understanding of its great value or importance, it was used as a stand for holding heated peanut oil; traces of oil can be seen on one end of the meteorite. This specimen is beautifully fresh, with a velvet-like black fusion crust and a light coloured matrix. A superb example of a fusion crusted chondrite.”
A few decades have elapsed since Rob wrote that, and I can’t make out any traces of peanut oil today…but I wonder if this stone might still be hazardous to someone with a peanut allergy. Bit of a scary thought..
