Kunya-Urgench
Seen to fall in 1998 in Turkmenistan · 1.1 tonnes recovered · H5
Kunya-Urgench has the fifth-largest recovered mass of the 1,063 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the heaviest of the two falls recorded in Turkmenistan. It recovered the most mass of the 54 falls dated to the 1990s.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 42.250° N, 59.200° E
The map is centred on Kunya-Urgench. Rings every 500 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Kunya-Urgench is Dashoguz, 50 km to the south-east. Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.
What H5 means
H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. Kunya-Urgench is the second-heaviest of the 159 H5 falls. Kunya-Urgench carries about 367 times the median recovered mass of H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Dashoguz in Turkmenistan, 50 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Kunya-Urgench is Dashoguz (1998, Turkmenistan) and the one after is Monahans (1998) (1998, the United States).