Mahadevpur
Seen to fall in 2007 in India · 71 kg recovered · H4/5
Mahadevpur is the fourth-heaviest of the 124 falls recorded in India. It is the heaviest of the six H4/5 falls.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 27.667° N, 95.783° E
The map is centred on Mahadevpur. Rings every 250 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Mahadevpur is Dergaon, 219 km to the south-west. Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.
What H4/5 means
H4/5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 4 or 5 (between the two). Mahadevpur is the most recent of the six H4/5 falls. The nearest other H4/5 fall is Tahara in Japan, 3,998 km away. In date order among H4/5 falls, the one before Mahadevpur is Thuathe (2002, Lesotho).
Mahadevpur in India’s record
In date order Mahadevpur is number 123 of the 124 falls recorded in India, which run from 1621 to 2008. The fall recorded before Mahadevpur in India is Kavarpura (2006); the next is Sulagiri (2008).
The 2000s
Mahadevpur is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 2007, among them Chergach in Mali, Didim in Turkey, Puerto Lápice in Spain.