Bustee
Seen to fall in 1852 in India · 1.5 kg recovered · Aubrite
Bustee is one of 19 other achondrites among the observed falls. It is the only Aubrite fall recorded in India. Lahrauli came down only 12 km to the west, in 1955.
- Group
- Other achondrites
- Recorded position
- 26.783° N, 82.833° E
The map is centred on Bustee. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Bustee has 23 other recorded falls within 250 km, one of the 20 most crowded spots in the record.
What Aubrite means
Aubrite is the label for an aubrite, an enstatite-rich achondrite. By recovered mass Bustee ranks eighth of the 9 Aubrite falls. The nearest other Aubrite fall is Pesyanoe in Russia, 3,467 km away. In date order among Aubrite falls, the one before Bustee is Bishopville (1843, the United States) and the one after is Cumberland Falls (1919, the United States).
Bustee in India’s record
In date order Bustee is number 19 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 124 falls recorded in India, which run from 1621 to 2008. By recovered mass Bustee comes 67th of 124 there. The fall recorded before Bustee in India is Shalka (1850); the next is Yatoor (1852).
The 1850s
Bustee is one of 36 falls dated to the 1850s. Elsewhere, the record lists two other falls in 1852: Mezö-Madaras in Romania, Borkut in Ukraine.