New Concord
Seen to fall in 1860 in the United States · 230 kg recovered · L6
New Concord has the 22nd-largest recovered mass of the 1,063 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the fourth-heaviest of the 146 falls recorded in the United States.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 40.000° N, 81.767° W
The map is centred on New Concord. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to New Concord is Bradford Woods, 153 km to the east. Within 250 km lie three other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bradford Woods | 1886 | L | 762 g | 153 km east |
| 2 | Chicora | 1938 | LL6 | 303 g | 201 km north-east |
| 3 | Pricetown | 1893 | L6 | 900 g | 204 km south-west |
| 4 | Bath Furnace | 1902 | L6 | 86 kg | 259 km south-west |
| 5 | Burnwell | 1990 | H4-an | 1.5 kg | 268 km south |
| 6 | Cynthiana | 1877 | L/LL4 | 6 kg | 278 km south-west |
What L6 means
L6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. New Concord carries about 77 times the median recovered mass of L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Pricetown in the United States, 204 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before New Concord is Kusiali (1860, India) and the one after is Buschhof (1863, Romania).
New Concord in the United States’s record
In date order New Concord is number 20 of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. The fall recorded before New Concord in the United States is Harrison County (1859); the next is Vernon County (1865).
The 1860s
New Concord is one of 56 falls dated to the 1860s. Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1860, among them Dhurmsala in India, Alessandria in Italy, Kheragur in India.