Merua
Seen to fall in 1920 in India · 71 kg recovered · H5
Merua is the third-heaviest of the 124 falls recorded in India. It carries about 24 times the median recovered mass of H5 falls.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 25.483° N, 81.983° E
The map is centred on Merua. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Merua is Chail, 34 km to the west. Within 250 km lie 19 other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chail | 1814 | H6 | 0.5 g | 34 km west |
| 2 | Khohar | 1910 | L3.6 | 9.7 kg | 62 km south-west |
| 3 | Bishunpur | 1895 | LL3.15 | 1 kg | 63 km east |
| 4 | Kamalpur | 1942 | L6 | 2.8 kg | 80 km north-west |
| 5 | Dyalpur | 1872 | Ureilite | 300 g | 85 km north |
| 6 | Benares (a) | 1798 | LL4 | 3.7 kg | 95 km east |
What H5 means
H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Merua ranks 13th of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Pokhra in India, 153 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Merua is Bur-Gheluai (1919, Somalia) and the one after is Simmern (1920, Germany).
Merua in India’s record
In date order Merua is number 81 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 124 falls recorded in India, which run from 1621 to 2008. The fall recorded before Merua in India is Atarra (1920); the next is Haripura (1921).
The 1920s
Merua is one of 68 falls dated to the 1920s. Elsewhere, the record lists three other falls in 1920: Kushiike in Japan, Aguila Blanca in Argentina, Simmern in Germany.