Muraid

Seen to fall in 1924 in Bangladesh · 4.7 kg recovered · L6

Muraid is the third-heaviest of the eight falls recorded in Bangladesh. It is the second-heaviest of the four L6 falls recorded in Bangladesh. Shytal came down only 19 km to the south, in 1863.

Group: L chondrites
Recorded position: 24.500° N, 90.217° E

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

Nearest recorded falls

Within 250 km lie eight other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Shytal	1863	L6	3.2 kg	19 km south
2	Dokachi	1903	H5	3.8 kg	112 km south
3	Gopalpur	1865	H6	1.6 kg	122 km west
4	Perpeti	1935	L6	23 kg	153 km south-east
5	Patwar	1935	Mesosiderite-A1	37 kg	179 km south-east
6	Bhola	1940	LL3-6	1 kg	207 km south

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 Muraid ranks 95th of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Shytal in Bangladesh, 19 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Muraid is Forksville (1924, the United States) and the one after is Santa Isabel (1924, Argentina).

Dark ticks: 254 L6 falls, median 3 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Muraid in Bangladesh’s record

In date order Muraid is number 5 of the 8 falls recorded in Bangladesh, which run from 1863 to 1940. The fall recorded before Muraid in Bangladesh is Dokachi (1903); the next is Patwar (1935).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1920s

Muraid is one of 68 falls dated to the 1920s. Elsewhere, the record lists nine other falls in 1924, among them Olivenza in Spain, Johnstown in the United States, Béréba in Burkina Faso.