Mayo Belwa

Seen to fall in 1974 in Nigeria · 4.8 kg recovered · Aubrite

Mayo Belwa is the most recent of the nine Aubrite falls. It is one of 19 other achondrites among the observed falls.

Group: Other achondrites
Recorded position: 8.967° N, 12.083° E

The map is centred on Mayo Belwa. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Mayo Belwa is Galim (a), 217 km to the south. Within 250 km lie four other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Galim (a)	1952	LL6	36 g	217 km south
2	Galim (b)	1952	EH3/4-an	28 g	217 km south
3	Guidder	1949	LL5	968 g	234 km north-east
4	Git-Git	1947	L6	480 g	248 km west
5	Gujba	1984	CBa	100 kg	285 km north
6	Bununu	1942	Howardite	357 g	298 km north-west

What Aubrite means

Aubrite is the label for an aubrite, an enstatite-rich achondrite. By recovered mass Mayo Belwa ranks fifth of the 9 Aubrite falls. The nearest other Aubrite fall is Khor Temiki in Sudan, 2,709 km away. In date order among Aubrite falls, the one before Mayo Belwa is Norton County (1948, the United States).

Dark ticks: 9 Aubrite falls, median 4.8 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Mayo Belwa in Nigeria’s record

In date order Mayo Belwa is number 11 of the 15 falls recorded in Nigeria, which run from 1923 to 2002. By recovered mass Mayo Belwa comes seventh of 15 there. The fall recorded before Mayo Belwa in Nigeria is Kabo (1971); the next is Gashua (1984).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1970s

Mayo Belwa is one of 57 falls dated to the 1970s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1974, among them Enshi in China, Gorlovka in Ukraine, Naragh in Iran.