Meteorite falls in Norway
Norway has 9 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013), the 24th-highest count of 107 countries. The heaviest is Tysnes Island (20 kg, 1884). The earliest is Ski in 1848. The most recent is Moss in 2006.
- Median recovered mass
- 357 g
- Different class labels
- 7
- Falls with their own page
- 2
Dot size grows with recovered mass; the three heaviest are named.
Year by year
Of the 9, three are dated before 1900 and three are from 1950 or later. The busiest decade there is the 1920s, with two falls. The median distance from a fall in Norway to its nearest recorded neighbour, in any country, is 99 km. The closest fall recorded across the border is Ställdalen in Sweden, 210 km from Trysil.
What fell in Norway
The most common class is H (two falls), followed by L6 (2). Together the falls recorded in Norway recovered 26 kg.
- L chondrites 3
- H chondrites 3
- Intermediate and ungrouped ordinary chondrites 1
- Carbonaceous chondrites 2