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Cavezzo (L5-an, S2, 55.3 grams) fall near Ponte Motta (Cavezzo) on 1 January 2020, 18:26:52.9-58.5 UT, Rovereto sul Secchia, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ordinary chondrite (L5-an) meteorite fragments were found by 48-year old warehouseman and cyclist Davide Gaddi from Mirandola in the grass next to a path on the bank of the Secchia at location 44\u00b049’43.7″N, 10\u00b058’19.5″E<\/a> near Ponte Motta (Cavezzo) at a few minutes past 2 p.m. on 4 January 2020 while walking his dog. His dog Pimpa found and sniffed the small tetrahedral meteorite (3.1 g) in the grass. Gaddi went to the spot and picked up the specimen. Then he remembered the photos of meteorites he had seen in the local media. He put the fragment in a plastic bag and at 3.02 p.m. sent an e-mail message and some photos of the find to PRISMA (Prima Rete Italiana per la Sorveglianza sistematica di Meteore e dell\u2019Atmosfera) via email. Then the battery of his mobile was empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Salve. Ritrovato questo frammento in zona Disvetro_Rovereto sul Secchia in provincia di Modena. Dalle descrizioni si avvicina a un frammento di meteorite\u2026 O sbaglio?<\/em>” (Davide Gaddi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberto Buzzoni from the Project Office of PRISMA was the first who read Gaddi’s message. Meanwhile Gaddi went on walking back to his car in order to recharge the battery of his mobile phone and suddenly found the larger fragment (52.2 g) in the grass a few meters away. Then Daniele Gardiol contacted Gaddi via phone and e-mail. After Gaddi had read Gardiol’s e-mail at around 4 p.m. he phoned PRISMA, told them about the circumstances of his finds and was told to meet Romano Serra (University of Bologna, curator of the collection of the Museum of S. Giovanni in Persiceto) who was inspecting the calculated strewn field near the Disvetro cemetary. There Serra eventually confirmed the meteoritic nature of Gaddi’s finds when he presented them to him. At around 4.46 p.m. Serra revealed towards Daniele Gardiol of INAF (Istituto nazionale di astrofisica) that fresh meteorites had been found. Gaddi has decided to donate the small mass to the Municipality of Cavezzo (Cavezzo Astronomical Observatory). It is planned to make three casts of the meteorite, one for the town of Cavezzo, one for the observatory Disvetro di Cavezzo and one for Gaddi. The small 3-gram specimen has been given to Giovanni Protesi and is being analysed and classified at the Dipartimento Scienze della Terra of the University of Florence. The analyses of the meteorites are being coordinated by Giovanni Pratesi (associate professor of Mineralogy at the University of Florence (Unifi)) in collaboration with Vanni Moggi Cecchi (curator of the Litho-Mineralogical Collection of the Museum of Natural History of the Museum System of Unifi and other scientists. The classification results were initially expected to be published from 1 February 2020. In general measuring the short-lived radio isotopes of this meteorite is strongly advised to guarantee that the found specimen is actually a specimen which fell on 1 January 2020, especially because it is an ordinary chondrite similar to those which have fallen in recent years. Measurements of the short-lived radio isotopes on the larger fragment at the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Torino, have reportedly been performed at the Monte dei Cappuccini Laboratory (IFSI, INAF). The search for more meteorites continued but none could be found. On 1 February a public meeting with Daniele Gardiol, Mario Di Martino, Albino Carbognani, Umberto Repetti, Romano Serra and Giovanni Pratesi at the Osservatorio Astronomico “Geminiano Montanari” in Cavezzo was held. On 5 September 2020 the confirmed fall was officially registered as Cavezzo<\/a> (L5-an, S2, W0). The meteorite is currently curated at the Museo di Scienze Planetarie in Prato near Florence. In May 2021 the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) documented the meteorite fall in a 45-minute documentary called ‘Cavezzo – The Story of a Meteorite’. In October 2023 INAF Press published its first comic book inspired by the Cavezzo meteorite fall to encourage young people to join PRISMA. It’s available for free (as PDF): Frammenti di cielo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cosmogenic radionuclides in the Cavezzo meteorite: Gamma-ray measurement and detection efficiency simulations\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilaria Bizzarri, Dario Barghini, Paolo Colombetti, Daniele Gardiol, Sara Rubinetti, Salvatore Mancuso, Mario Di Martino, Giovanni Pratesi, Vanni Moggi Cecchi, Nora Groschopf, Andrea Aquino, Matthias Laubenstein, Narendra Bhandari, Carla Taricco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Volume 194, April 2023, 110651<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cavezzo\u2014The double face of a meteorite: Mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry of a very unusual chondrite<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giovanni Pratesi, Vanni Moggi Cecchi, Richard C. Greenwood, Ian A. Franchi, Samantha J. Hammond, Mario Di Martino, Dario Barghini, Carla Taricco, Albino Carbognani, Daniele Gardiol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meteoritics & Planetary Science
Version of Record online: 23 June 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cavezzo, the first Italian meteorite recovered by the PRISMA fireball network. Orbit, trajectory, and strewn-field<\/strong><\/a>
D. Gardiol et al. \/ Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Published: 21 November 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

original unedited manuscript (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The large fragment. Photo: PRISMA\/FRIPON<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The larger fragment (~ max. 4 x 4 cm) next to the smaller one (~3 g). Photo: INAF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: INAF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: INAF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The seemingly chondritic lithology of the larger meteorite. Photo: Gazzetta di Modena<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second find (~52 g). Photo: Davide Gaddi <\/p>\n\n\n