Albareto is a meteorite which fell in July 1766 near the frazione Albareto, of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Composition and classification Albareto is a transitional ordinary chondrite between the L and the LL group. It belongs to the petrologic type 4.
History The fall of the Albareto's meteorite is documented in a document "Della caduta di un sasso dall'aria" of the natural philosopher Domenico Troili.From: http://www.gemma.unimore.it/doc/app_meteoriti.pdf Troili didn't realize the extraterrestrial origin of the object but provided with his treatise one of the first chronicles of the fall of a meteorite.
In addition to describing the phenomenon, Troili carefully examined and noted the meteorite grains of a mineral similar to brass, which he called "marchesita" and that for long was thought to be pyrite (FeS2). In 1862 the German mineralogist Gustav Rose analyzed the composition of this mineral, and determined a different chemical formula: FeS. Rose called this new mineral Troilite in honor of Domenico TroiliGerald Joseph Home McCall, A. J. Bowden, Richard John Howarth, The history of meteoritics and key meteorite collections, Geological Society, 2006, 206–207.
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See also Glossary of meteoritics Meteorite Meteorite falls Ordinary chondrite