Garland
Seen to fall in 1950 in the United States · 102 g recovered · Diogenite-pm
Garland is the earliest of the three Diogenite-pm falls. It is the only Diogenite-pm fall recorded in the United States.
- Recorded position
- 41.683° N, 112.133° W
The map is centred on Garland. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Garland is Battle Mountain, 438 km to the west. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Garland.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Battle Mountain | 2012 | L6 | 2.9 kg | 438 km west |
| 2 | Berthoud | 2004 | Eucrite-mmict | 960 g | 616 km east |
| 3 | Johnstown | 1924 | Diogenite | 40 kg | 625 km east |
| 4 | Denver | 1967 | L6 | 230 g | 642 km east |
| 5 | Aztec | 1938 | L6 | 2.8 kg | 649 km south-east |
| 6 | Torrington | 1944 | H6 | 259 g | 661 km east |
What Diogenite-pm means
Diogenite-pm is the label for a diogenite, a rock rich in the mineral orthopyroxene from deeper in the same crust as eucrites. Garland has the smallest recovered mass of the 3 Diogenite-pm falls. The nearest other Diogenite-pm fall is Peckelsheim in Germany, 8,197 km away. In date order among Diogenite-pm falls, the one after is Peckelsheim (1953, Germany).
Garland in the United States’s record
In date order Garland is number 105 (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 Garland comes 133rd of 146 there. The fall recorded before Garland in the United States is Palolo Valley (1949); the next is Murray (1950).
The 1950s
Garland is one of 58 falls dated to the 1950s. Elsewhere, the record lists eight other falls in 1950, among them Vengerovo in Russia, Arroyo Aguiar in Argentina, Monte das Fortes in Portugal.