Nyaung

Seen to fall in 1939 in Myanmar · 738 g recovered · Iron, IIIAB

Nyaung is the most recent of the three falls recorded in Myanmar. It is one of 48 iron meteorites among the observed falls.

Group: Iron meteorites
Recorded position: 21.208° N, 94.917° E

The map is centred on Nyaung. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Nyaung is Mabwe-Khoywa, 328 km to the south-east. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Nyaung.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Mabwe-Khoywa	1937	L5	540 g	328 km south-east
2	Quenggouk	1857	H4	6 kg	384 km south
3	Sabrum	1999	LL6	478 g	394 km north-west
4	Patwar	1935	Mesosiderite-A1	37 kg	441 km north-west
5	Perpeti	1935	L6	23 kg	467 km north-west
6	Bhola	1940	LL3-6	1 kg	470 km west

What Iron, IIIAB means

Iron, IIIAB is the label for an iron meteorite of chemical group IIIAB, defined by its nickel and trace-element content. Nyaung has the smallest recovered mass of the 10 Iron, IIIAB falls. The nearest other Iron, IIIAB fall is Jianshi in China, 1,804 km away. In date order among Iron, IIIAB falls, the one before Nyaung is Samelia (1921, India) and the one after is Kayakent (1961, Turkey).

Dark ticks: 10 Iron, IIIAB falls, median 15 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Nyaung in Myanmar’s record

By recovered mass Nyaung comes second of 3 there. The fall recorded before Nyaung in Myanmar is Mabwe-Khoywa, in 1937.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1930s

Nyaung is one of 88 falls dated to the 1930s. Elsewhere, the record lists nine other falls in 1939, among them Dresden (Ontario) in Canada, Andura in India, Kendleton in the United States.