Cacak
Seen to fall in 1919 in Serbia · 212 g recovered · Ordinary chondrite
Cacak is the most recent and lightest of the five falls recorded in Serbia. It is the only Ordinary chondrite fall recorded in Serbia. Jelica came down only 8.7 km to the east, in 1889.
- Recorded position
- 43.839° N, 20.333° E
The map is centred on Cacak. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Within 250 km lie seven other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jelica | 1889 | LL6 | 34 kg | 8.7 km east |
| 2 | Guêa | 1891 | Unclassified stone | 1.9 kg | 11 km south-west |
| 3 | Zavid | 1897 | L6 | 95 kg | 115 km north-west |
| 4 | Soko-Banja | 1877 | LL4 | 80 kg | 125 km east |
| 5 | Kakowa | 1858 | L6 | 577 g | 179 km north-east |
| 6 | Virba | 1873 | L6 | 3.6 kg | 188 km east |
What Ordinary chondrite means
Ordinary chondrite is the label for an ordinary chondrite without an assigned chemical group or type. By recovered mass Cacak ranks 15th of the 18 Ordinary chondrite falls. The nearest other Ordinary chondrite fall is Sopot in Romania, 261 km away. In date order among Ordinary chondrite falls, the one before Cacak is Novy-Projekt (1908, Lithuania) and the one after is Kushiike (1920, Japan).
Cacak in Serbia’s record
The fall recorded before Cacak in Serbia is Zavid, in 1897.
The 1910s
Cacak is one of 65 falls dated to the 1910s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1919, among them Bur-Gheluai in Somalia, Cumberland Falls in the United States, Rembang in Indonesia.