Meteorite falls in Poland
Poland has 10 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013), the 23rd-highest count of 107 countries. The heaviest is Pultusk (250 kg, 1868). The earliest is Schellin in 1715. The most recent is Sołtmany in 2011.
- Median recovered mass
- 2.9 kg
- Different class labels
- 8
- Falls with their own page
- 3
Dot size grows with recovered mass; the three heaviest are named.
Year by year
Of the 10, six are dated before 1900 and two are from 1950 or later. No decade has more than one recorded fall there. The median distance from a fall in Poland to its nearest recorded neighbour, in any country, is 118 km. The closest fall recorded across the border is Braunau in the Czech Republic, 34 km from Gnadenfrei.
What fell in Poland
The most common class is H5 (three falls). Together the falls recorded in Poland recovered 341 kg.
- L chondrites 3
- H chondrites 4
- Eucrites, howardites and diogenites 1
- Stony-iron meteorites 1
- Unclassified stones 1