Luponnas

Seen to fall in 1753 in France · 14 kg recovered · H3-5

Only 18 falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) carry an earlier date than Luponnas. It is the earliest of the five H3-5 falls.

Group: H chondrites
Recorded position: 46.217° N, 5.000° E

The map is centred on Luponnas. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Luponnas is Salles, 34 km to the south-west. Within 250 km lie 17 other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Salles	1798	L5	9 kg	34 km south-west
2	Alby sur Chéran	2002	Eucrite-mmict	252 g	90 km south-east
3	Ornans	1868	CO3.4	6 kg	133 km north-east
4	Mezel	1949	L6	1.3 kg	144 km west
5	Chervettaz	1901	L5	705 g	144 km east
6	Chassigny	1815	Martian (chassignite)	4 kg	169 km north

What H3-5 means

H3-5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, a breccia or mix spanning petrologic types 3 to 5. By recovered mass Luponnas ranks second of the 5 H3-5 falls. The nearest other H3-5 fall is Fermo in Italy, 769 km away. In date order among H3-5 falls, the one after is Magombedze (1990, Zimbabwe).

Dark ticks: 5 H3-5 falls, median 10 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Luponnas in France’s record

Luponnas is the third-earliest of the 58 falls recorded in France. By recovered mass Luponnas comes 15th of 58 there. The fall recorded before Luponnas in France is Mount Vaisi (1637); the next is Lucé (1768).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

Before 1800

Luponnas is one of 35 falls dated before 1800. Elsewhere, the record lists one other fall in 1753: Tabor in the Czech Republic.