Lodi (Italy) 1972: A cold meteorite case closed

This paper investigated the presumed meteorite fall that occurred in the town of Lodi (Lombardy, Italy) on 3 June 1972. The event has been classified as a pseudometeorite by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. However, although some investigations may have carried out to ascertain the nature of the recovered specimen, no experimental analyses have been published so far. The aim of this work is therefore not only to further current knowledge of the Lodi pseudometeorite by reconstructing the event through the examination of untapped sources, but also to present the results obtained by the portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF) and X-ray diffraction analyses that were performed on the sole recovered specimen to pinpoint its origin. The latter was sent by its owner to the Museo di Scienze Planetarie in June 2021 thus showing the importance of naturalistic museums not only to preserve meteorite collections, but also for closing key knowledge gaps in meteoritics and planetary sciences using the proper analytical techniques.