Estherville
Seen to fall in 1879 in the United States · 320 kg recovered · Mesosiderite-A3/4
Estherville has the 13th-largest recovered mass of the 1,063 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the third-heaviest of the 146 falls recorded in the United States. It is the only fall in the record classed Mesosiderite-A3/4.
- Recorded position
- 43.417° N, 94.833° W
The map is centred on Estherville. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Estherville is Forest City, 96 km to the east. Within 250 km lie two other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forest City | 1890 | H5 | 152 kg | 96 km east |
| 2 | Centerville | 1956 | H5 | 46 g | 170 km west |
| 3 | Vernon County | 1865 | H6 | 1.5 kg | 296 km east |
| 4 | Homestead | 1875 | L5 | 230 kg | 302 km south-east |
| 5 | Turtle Lake | 1996 | L5 | 89 g | 308 km north-east |
| 6 | Marion (Iowa) | 1847 | L6 | 28 kg | 314 km south-east |
What Mesosiderite-A3/4 means
Mesosiderite-A3/4 is the label for a mesosiderite, a breccia of metal and basaltic rock fragments. Estherville is one of 11 stony-iron meteorites among the observed falls.
Estherville in the United States’s record
In date order Estherville is number 32 of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. The fall recorded before Estherville in the United States is Warrenton (1877); the next is Bradford Woods (1886).
The 1870s
Estherville recovered the most mass of the 51 falls dated to the 1870s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 1879, among them Tenham in Australia, Kalumbi in India, Nogoya in Argentina.