Chergach
Seen to fall in 2007 in Mali · 100 kg recovered · H5
Chergach is the heaviest of the two falls recorded in Mali. It carries about 33 times the median recovered mass of H5 falls.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 23.696° N, 5.015° W
The map is centred on Chergach. Rings every 250 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Chergach is Zag, 593 km to the north-west. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Chergach.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zag | 1998 | H3-6 | 175 kg | 593 km north-west |
| 2 | Tissint | 2011 | Martian (shergottite) | 7 kg | 693 km north |
| 3 | Bensour | 2002 | LL6 | 45 kg | 728 km north |
| 4 | Oued el Hadjar | 1986 | LL6 | 1.2 kg | 737 km north |
| 5 | Hassi-Jekna | 1890 | Iron, IAB-sHL | 1.2 kg | 824 km north-east |
| 6 | Oum Dreyga | 2003 | H3-5 | 17 kg | 824 km west |
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 Chergach ranks tenth of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Tamdakht in Morocco, 853 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Chergach is Werdama (2006, Libya) and the one after is Red Canyon Lake (2007, the United States).
Chergach in Mali’s record
Mali has one other recorded fall: N'Goureyma, in 1900.
The 2000s
Chergach is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 2007, among them Mahadevpur in India, Didim in Turkey, Puerto Lápice in Spain.