Chail

Seen to fall in 1814 in India · 0.5 g recovered · H6

Chail is one of the smallest recoveries in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013): only four falls were logged with less. It is the lightest of the 124 falls recorded in India.

Group: H chondrites
Recorded position: 25.367° N, 81.667° E

The map is centred on Chail. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Chail is Khohar, 33 km to the south-west. Within 250 km lie 18 other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Khohar	1910	L3.6	9.7 kg	33 km south-west
2	Merua	1920	H5	71 kg	34 km east
3	Kamalpur	1942	L6	2.8 kg	77 km north
4	Bishunpur	1895	LL3.15	1 kg	94 km east
5	Dyalpur	1872	Ureilite	300 g	104 km north
6	Atarra	1920	L4	1.3 kg	105 km west

What H6 means

H6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. The nearest other H6 fall is Supuhee in India, 296 km away. In date order among H6 falls, the one before Chail is Toulouse (1812, France) and the one after is Kadonah (1822, India).

Dark ticks: 91 H6 falls, median 2.5 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Chail in India’s record

In date order Chail is number 5 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 124 falls recorded in India, which run from 1621 to 2008. The fall recorded before Chail in India is Punganaru (1811); the next is Gurram Konda (1814).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1810s

Chail is one of 24 falls dated to the 1810s. Elsewhere, the record lists two other falls in 1814: Agen in France, Bachmut in Ukraine.