Beyrout

Seen to fall in 1921 in Lebanon · 1.1 kg recovered · LL3.8

Beyrout is the only observed fall recorded in Lebanon. It is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed LL3.8.

Group: LL chondrites
Recorded position: 33.883° N, 35.500° E

The map is centred on Beyrout. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Beyrout is Aleppo, 301 km to the north-east. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Beyrout.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Aleppo	1873	L6	3.2 kg	301 km north-east
2	Sinai	1916	L6	1.5 kg	436 km south-west
3	Akaba	1949	L6	779 g	487 km south
4	Nakhla	1911	Martian (nakhlite)	10 kg	560 km south-west
5	Kemer	2008	L4	5.8 kg	626 km north-west
6	Sivas	1989	H6	40 kg	663 km north

What LL3.8 means

LL3.8 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron and low metal, petrologic type 3, the least heated and most primitive texture.

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 84 falls in the group ll chondrites.

The 1920s

Beyrout is one of 68 falls dated to the 1920s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 1921, among them Tuan Tuc in Vietnam, Rose City in the United States, Pitts in the United States.