Mike
Seen to fall in 1944 in Hungary · 224 g recovered · L6
Mike is the most recent and lightest of the seven falls recorded in Hungary. It is the lightest of the three L6 falls recorded in Hungary.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 46.233° N, 17.533° E
The map is centred on Mike. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Mike is Hraschina, 94 km to the west. Within 250 km lie six 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 Mike ranks 232nd of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Milena in Croatia, 110 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Mike is Leedey (1943, the United States) and the one after is Atoka (1945, the United States).
Mike in Hungary’s record
The fall recorded before Mike in Hungary is Nyirábrany, in 1914.
The 1940s
Mike is one of 55 falls dated to the 1940s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1944, among them Valdavur in India, Hallingeberg in Sweden, Mtola in Malawi.