Nuevo Laredo

Nuevo Laredo fell in 1926 in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. It is one of several notable Mexican meteorite finds that have given their names to geochemical groupings.

Nuevo Laredo is a eucrite, a basaltic achondrite belonging to the howardite–eucrite–diogenite (HED) clan. HED meteorites are widely accepted to come from the asteroid Vesta.

The Nuevo Laredo trend is a subgroup of eucrites defined by distinctive trace-element and rare-earth-element depletions relative to main-group eucrites. Nuevo Laredo-type eucrites are interpreted as having crystallized from more evolved, deeper-crustal magmas on Vesta.

Like other HED meteorites, Nuevo Laredo is linked to the asteroid Vesta, which NASA's Dawn spacecraft imaged extensively in 2011–2012. Its chemistry matches Vesta's basaltic crust well enough that Vesta is considered the only large surviving source of such material.