Mern
Seen to fall in 1878 in Denmark · 4 kg recovered · L6
Mern is the earliest and heaviest of the three falls recorded in Denmark. It is the only L6 fall recorded in Denmark.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 55.050° N, 12.067° E
The map is centred on Mern. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Mern is Maribo, 50 km to the south-west. Within 250 km lie seven other recorded falls.
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 Mern ranks 104th of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Kiel in Germany, 143 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Mern is Dandapur (1878, India) and the one after is Rakovka (1878, Russia).
Mern in Denmark’s record
The next fall recorded in Denmark is Aarhus, in 1951.
The 1870s
Mern is one of 51 falls dated to the 1870s. Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1878, among them Tieschitz in the Czech Republic, Rakovka in Russia, Dandapur in India.