Cali

Seen to fall in 2007 in Colombia · 478 g recovered · H/L4

Cali is the only observed fall recorded in Colombia. It has no other recorded fall within 701 km; only 15 falls in the record sit farther from their nearest neighbour.

Group: Intermediate and ungrouped ordinary chondrites
Recorded position: 3.405° N, 76.510° W

The map is centred on Cali. Rings every 1,000 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Cali is Daule, 701 km to the south-west. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Cali.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Daule	2008	L5	6.6 kg	701 km south-west
2	Valera	1972	L5	50 kg	924 km north-east
3	Heredia	1857	H5	1 kg	1,113 km north-west
4	Ucera	1970	H5	4.6 kg	1,123 km north-east
5	Carancas	2007	H4-5	342 g	2,378 km south
6	Orlando	2004	Eucrite	180 g	2,842 km north

What H/L4 means

H/L4 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with iron content between the H and L groups, petrologic type 4, mildly heated on its parent body. Cali is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed H/L4.

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 32 falls in the group intermediate and ungrouped ordinary chondrites.

The 2000s

Cali is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 2007, among them Chergach in Mali, Mahadevpur in India, Didim in Turkey.