Hökmark

Seen to fall in 1954 in Sweden · 306 g recovered · L4

Hökmark is the most recent and lightest of the nine falls recorded in Sweden. It is the only L4 fall recorded in Sweden.

Group: L chondrites
Recorded position: 64.433° N, 21.200° E

The map is centred on Hökmark. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Hökmark is Hvittis, 369 km to the south. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Hökmark.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Hvittis	1901	EL6	14 kg	369 km south
2	Pollen	1942	CM2	254 g	395 km north-west
3	St. Michel	1910	L6	17 kg	432 km south-east
4	Haverö	1971	Ureilite	1.5 kg	468 km south
5	Luotolax	1813	Howardite	885 g	488 km south-east
6	Bjurböle	1899	L/LL4	330 kg	507 km south-east

What L4 means

L4 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 4, mildly heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Hökmark ranks 16th of the 18 L4 falls. The nearest other L4 fall is Tennasilm in Estonia, 775 km away. In date order among L4 falls, the one before Hökmark is Kediri (1940, Indonesia) and the one after is Nikolskoe (1954, Russia).

Dark ticks: 18 L4 falls, median 3.5 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Hökmark in Sweden’s record

The fall recorded before Hökmark in Sweden is Långhalsen, in 1947.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1950s

Hökmark is one of 58 falls dated to the 1950s. Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1954, among them Yangchiang in China, Nikolskoe in Russia, Sylacauga in the United States.