A new italian meteorite from Scalea, Cosenza: description and preliminary data_Congresso congiunto SIMP-SGI 2025 - Geosciences and the Challenges of the 21st Century

A meteorite recovery in the Italian territory is an extremely rare event, due to unfavorable environmental conditions that do not allow long-term conservation of these stones on the fall site. Recently a very interesting case occurred near the town of Scalea, Cosenza. Mr. Maurizio Sassone, owner of a beach resort in this town, personally witnessed on September 11th, 2024 at 12.34 a.m., the fall of a meteorite. He brought the stone to the Meteocert laboratory of the Sistema Museale di Ateneo of the University of Florence where the first investigations regarding its nature were conducted. The petrographic and compositional features point to a classification as ordinary chondrite, thus becoming the 48th italian meteorite recorded.