“A meteorite fell near Scalea a few months ago.” The news was given today, at the end of the analyzes made in Florence, at the joint National Congress of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology and of the Italian Geological Society in progress in Padua da Vanni Moggi Cecchi, mineralogist of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence.
The meteorite, explained, “fell in Scalea, in the province of Cosenza, in Calabria. It is an ordinary amnesty, so it certainly tells us that it comes from the asteroid range and that it has an age similar to that of the solar system, that is, 4 and a half billion years “.
The object, he added, “gives us information about how our solar system was made to its origins. It is essential to emphasize that the meteorite falling near Scalea is quite primitive. We took a fragment, we made a series of analyzes and cut a piece that will remain in the museum. The meteorite is about 7 cm large and weighs 189 grams ».
In the last 500 years, the meteorites found in Italy have only been 47, this fell to Scalea is the 48th.
