Cumberland Falls
Seen to fall in 1919 in the United States · 17 kg recovered · Aubrite
Cumberland Falls is one of 19 other achondrites among the observed falls. It is the third-heaviest of the four Aubrite falls recorded in the United States.
- Group
- Other achondrites
- Recorded position
- 36.833° N, 84.350° W
The map is centred on Cumberland Falls. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Cumberland Falls is Maryville, 117 km to the south. Within 250 km lie nine other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maryville | 1983 | L6 | 1.4 kg | 117 km south |
| 2 | Bath Furnace | 1902 | L6 | 86 kg | 166 km north |
| 3 | Cynthiana | 1877 | L/LL4 | 6 kg | 174 km north |
| 4 | Bald Mountain | 1929 | L4 | 3.7 kg | 193 km south-east |
| 5 | Drake Creek | 1827 | L6 | 5 kg | 198 km west |
| 6 | Louisville | 1977 | L6 | 1.3 kg | 200 km north-west |
What Aubrite means
Aubrite is the label for an aubrite, an enstatite-rich achondrite. By recovered mass Cumberland Falls ranks third of the 9 Aubrite falls. The nearest other Aubrite fall is Bishopville in the United States, 473 km away. In date order among Aubrite falls, the one before Cumberland Falls is Bustee (1852, India) and the one after is Khor Temiki (1932, Sudan).
Cumberland Falls in the United States’s record
In date order Cumberland Falls is number 64 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. By recovered mass Cumberland Falls comes 29th of 146 there. The fall recorded before Cumberland Falls in the United States is Richardton (1918); the next is St. Mary's County (1919).
The 1910s
Cumberland Falls is one of 65 falls dated to the 1910s. Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1919, among them Bur-Gheluai in Somalia, Rembang in Indonesia, Raoyang in China.