Meteorite falls in Finland
Finland has 5 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013), the 36th-highest count of 107 countries. The heaviest is Bjurböle (330 kg, 1899). The earliest is Luotolax in 1813. The most recent is Haverö in 1971.
- Median recovered mass
- 14 kg
- Falls with their own page
- 3
Dot size grows with recovered mass; the three heaviest are named.
Year by year
Of the 5, two are dated before 1900 and one is from 1950 or later. No decade has more than one recorded fall there. The median distance from a fall in Finland to its nearest recorded neighbour, in any country, is 110 km. The closest fall recorded across the border is Marjalahti in Russia, 153 km from Luotolax.
What fell in Finland
Every fall recorded in Finland carries a different class label. Together the falls recorded in Finland recovered 363 kg.
- L chondrites 1
- Intermediate and ungrouped ordinary chondrites 1
- Enstatite chondrites 1
- Eucrites, howardites and diogenites 1
- Other achondrites 1