Bur-Gheluai
Seen to fall in 1919 in Somalia · 120 kg recovered · H5
Bur-Gheluai is the heaviest of the two falls recorded in Somalia. It carries about 40 times the median recovered mass of H5 falls.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 5.000° N, 48.000° E
The map is centred on Bur-Gheluai. Rings every 500 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Bur-Gheluai is Ergheo, 602 km to the south-west. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Bur-Gheluai.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ergheo | 1889 | L5 | 20 kg | 602 km south-west |
| 2 | Gursum | 1981 | H4/5 | 35 kg | 784 km north-west |
| 3 | Yafa | 2000 | H5 | 5.7 kg | 1,017 km north |
| 4 | Ankober | 1942 | H4 | 6.5 kg | 1,043 km north-west |
| 5 | Wolamo | 1964 | Ordinary chondrite | 166 g | 1,088 km north-west |
| 6 | Kaidun | 1980 | CR2 | 2 kg | 1,112 km north |
What H5 means
H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Bur-Gheluai ranks eighth of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Yafa in Yemen, 1,017 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Bur-Gheluai is Witklip Farm (1918, South Africa) and the one after is Merua (1920, India).
Bur-Gheluai in Somalia’s record
Somalia has one other recorded fall: Ergheo, in 1889.
The 1910s
Bur-Gheluai is one of 65 falls dated to the 1910s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1919, among them Cumberland Falls in the United States, Rembang in Indonesia, Raoyang in China.