Kushiike
Seen to fall in 1920 in Japan · 4.5 kg recovered · Ordinary chondrite
Kushiike is the heaviest of the 18 Ordinary chondrite falls. It is the only Ordinary chondrite fall recorded in Japan. Kijima (1906) came down only 22 km to the south, in 1906.
- Recorded position
- 37.050° N, 138.383° E
The map is centred on Kushiike. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Within 250 km lie 15 other recorded falls.
What Ordinary chondrite means
Ordinary chondrite is the label for an ordinary chondrite without an assigned chemical group or type. The nearest other Ordinary chondrite fall is Gyokukei in South Korea, 1,004 km away. In date order among Ordinary chondrite falls, the one before Kushiike is Cacak (1919, Serbia) and the one after is Unkoku (1924, South Korea).
Kushiike in Japan’s record
In date order Kushiike is number 24 of the 42 falls recorded in Japan, which run from 860 to 2003. By recovered mass Kushiike comes 12th of 42 there. The fall recorded before Kushiike in Japan is Tané (1918); the next is Nagai (1922).
The 1920s
Kushiike is one of 68 falls dated to the 1920s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1920, among them Merua in India, Aguila Blanca in Argentina, Atarra in India.