Lundsgård

Seen to fall in 1889 in Sweden · 11 kg recovered · L6

Lundsgård is the third-heaviest of the nine falls recorded in Sweden. It is the heaviest of the two L6 falls recorded in Sweden. Ekeby came down only 20 km to the south, in 1939.

Group: L chondrites
Recorded position: 56.217° N, 13.033° E

The map is centred on Lundsgård. 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	Ekeby	1939	H4	3.3 kg	20 km south
2	Hedeskoga	1922	H5	3.5 kg	96 km south-east
3	Mern	1878	L6	4 kg	143 km south-west
4	Aarhus	1951	H6	720 g	173 km west
5	Lillaverke	1930	H5	6.9 kg	181 km east
6	Maribo	2009	CM2	26 g	189 km south-west

What L6 means

L6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Lundsgård ranks 62nd of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Mern in Denmark, 143 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Lundsgård is Lalitpur (1887, India) and the one after is Bansur (1892, India).

Dark ticks: 254 L6 falls, median 3 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Lundsgård in Sweden’s record

In date order Lundsgård is number 3 of the 9 falls recorded in Sweden, which run from 1869 to 1954. The fall recorded before Lundsgård in Sweden is Ställdalen (1876); the next is Hedeskoga (1922).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1880s

Lundsgård is one of 40 falls dated to the 1880s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1889, among them Jelica in Serbia, Ergheo in Somalia, Mighei in Ukraine.