Lost City
Seen to fall in 1970 in the United States · 17 kg recovered · H5
Lost City is the fifth-heaviest of the 19 H5 falls recorded in the United States. The nearest other recorded fall is Fayetteville, 89 km to the east. By recovered mass it ranks ninth of the 57 falls dated to the same decade.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 36.008° N, 95.150° W
The map is centred on Lost City. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Within 250 km lie six other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fayetteville | 1934 | H4 | 2.4 kg | 89 km east |
| 2 | Cabin Creek | 1886 | Iron, IIIAB | 49 kg | 159 km east |
| 3 | Baxter | 1916 | L6 | 611 g | 169 km north-east |
| 4 | Atoka | 1945 | L6 | 1.4 kg | 209 km south-west |
| 5 | Blackwell | 1906 | L5 | 2.4 kg | 216 km north-west |
| 6 | Crescent | 1936 | CM2 | 78 g | 219 km west |
What H5 means
H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Lost City ranks 31st of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Miller (Arkansas) in the United States, 288 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Lost City is Kiffa (1970, Mauritania) and the one after is Ucera (1970, Venezuela).
Lost City in the United States’s record
In date order Lost City is number 116 of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. By recovered mass Lost City comes 30th of 146 there. The fall recorded before Lost City in the United States is Schenectady (1968); the next is Wethersfield (1971) (1971).
The 1970s
Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 1970, among them Dongtai in China, Ucera in Venezuela, Dwaleni in Eswatini.