Moss

Seen to fall in 2006 in Norway · 3.8 kg recovered · CO3.6

Moss is the most recent and second-heaviest of the nine falls recorded in Norway. It is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed CO3.6.

Group: Carbonaceous chondrites
Recorded position: 59.433° N, 10.700° E

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

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Moss is Ski, 35 km to the north. Within 250 km lie six other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Ski	1848	L6	850 g	35 km north
2	Oterøy	1928	L6	246 g	96 km south-west
3	Grefsheim	1976	L5	46 g	138 km north
4	Tromøy	1950	H	357 g	150 km south-west
5	Trysil	1927	L/LL6	640 g	225 km north
6	Ställdalen	1876	H5	34 kg	245 km east

What CO3.6 means

CO3.6 is the label for a carbonaceous chondrite of the CO (Ornans type) group, petrologic type 3, the least heated and most primitive texture.

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 44 falls in the group carbonaceous chondrites.

Moss in Norway’s record

The fall recorded before Moss in Norway is Grefsheim, in 1976.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 2000s

Moss is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 2006, among them Bassikounou in Mauritania, Kavarpura in India, Werdama in Libya.