The Reliegos meteorite is a well-known meteorite fall in Spain, which occurred on December 28, 1947 near Reliegos, in the municipality of Santas Martas, province of León.
It is an L5 chondrite, which means that it is an ordinary chondrite with a certain chemical composition and texture.
The meteorite had a mass of 17.3 kg and consisted of a single stone.
The meteorite is characterized by the presence of relatively indistinct chondrules in a finely ground and largely recrystallized matrix.
The meteorite contains mainly olivine and orthopyroxene, as well as iron-nickel metal (mainly kamacite), troilite, plagioclase and accessory clinopyroxene.
The Reliegos meteorite is one of the 80 confirmed witness accounts of meteorite falls classified as an L5 chondrite, and the only witness account of an L5 fall in Spain.