Bath Furnace
Seen to fall in 1902 in the United States · 86 kg recovered · L6
Bath Furnace carries about 29 times the median recovered mass of L6 falls. It recovered the most mass of the 55 falls dated to the 1900s.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 38.250° N, 83.750° W
The map is centred on Bath Furnace. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Bath Furnace is Cynthiana, 47 km to the west. Within 250 km lie six other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cynthiana | 1877 | L/LL4 | 6 kg | 47 km west |
| 2 | Pricetown | 1893 | L6 | 900 g | 97 km north |
| 3 | Burnwell | 1990 | H4-an | 1.5 kg | 150 km south-east |
| 4 | Cumberland Falls | 1919 | Aubrite | 17 kg | 166 km south |
| 5 | Louisville | 1977 | L6 | 1.3 kg | 175 km west |
| 6 | Harrison County | 1859 | L6 | 680 g | 211 km west |
What L6 means
L6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Bath Furnace ranks 12th of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Pricetown in the United States, 97 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Bath Furnace is Achiras (1902, Argentina) and the one after is Kamsagar (1902, India).
Bath Furnace in the United States’s record
In date order Bath Furnace is number 48 of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. By recovered mass Bath Furnace comes 12th of 146 there. The fall recorded before Bath Furnace in the United States is Phillips County (stone) (1901); the next is Rich Mountain (1903).