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Jilin, also transliterated as Kirin, is an H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite shower that fell in Jilin Province, China, on March 8, 1976. Thousands of fragments were recovered from a broad strewn field after a large meteoroid fragmented in the atmosphere. The largest recovered piece weighs about 1,770...
Pultusk is an H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell near Pułtusk, Poland, in 1868. The event produced an unusually extensive shower of stones over a broad area, and thousands of individual fragments were subsequently recovered. As an H-group chondrite, it contains abundant iron-bearing material,...
Hessle is an H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell near Hessle in Uppsala County, Sweden, on January 1, 1869. The event produced a shower of stones over a broad area and was observed by numerous witnesses, allowing many individual fragments to be recovered. As an equilibrated ordinary chondrite,...
Richardton is an H5 ordinary chondrite that fell near Richardton, North Dakota, on June 30, 1918. The H classification indicates relatively high total iron, while petrologic type 5 shows that its constituent minerals were substantially equilibrated by thermal metamorphism on the parent asteroid. Rec...
Allegan is an H5 ordinary chondrite that fell near Allegan, Michigan, in 1899. The H classification denotes an ordinary-chondrite group with relatively high total iron, while petrologic type 5 indicates substantial thermal metamorphism on its parent asteroid without complete melting. As a witnessed...
H5 ordinary chondrite that fell near Krasnyi Klyuch, Bashkortostan, Russia, in 1946, with multiple stones recovered after a witnessed fall in the Soviet Union.
