Mocs
Seen to fall in 1882 in Romania · 300 kg recovered · L5-6
Mocs has the 15th-largest recovered mass of the 1,063 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the heaviest of the nine falls recorded in Romania.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 46.800° N, 24.033° E
The map is centred on Mocs. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Mocs is Tauti, 42 km to the west. Within 250 km lie 10 other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tauti | 1937 | L6 | 21 kg | 42 km west |
| 2 | Ohaba | 1857 | H5 | 16 kg | 89 km south-west |
| 3 | Mezö-Madaras | 1852 | L3.7 | 23 kg | 134 km east |
| 4 | Buschhof | 1863 | L6 | 5 kg | 139 km east |
| 5 | Borkut | 1852 | L5 | 7 kg | 151 km north |
| 6 | Nyirábrany | 1914 | LL5 | 1.1 kg | 173 km north-west |
What L5-6 means
L5-6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, a breccia or mix spanning petrologic types 5 to 6. The nearest other L5-6 fall is Pleşcoi in Romania, 267 km away.
Mocs in Romania’s record
In date order Mocs is number 5 of the 9 falls recorded in Romania, which run from 1852 to 2008. The fall recorded before Mocs in Romania is Buschhof (1863); the next is Silistra (1917).
The 1880s
Mocs is one of 40 falls dated to the 1880s. Elsewhere, the record lists three other falls in 1882: Fukutomi in Japan, Pavlovka in Russia, Pirgunje in Bangladesh.