Ogi

Seen to fall in 1741 in Japan · 14 kg recovered · H6

Only 16 falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) carry an earlier date than Ogi. It is the heaviest of the two H6 falls recorded in Japan. Fukutomi came down only 11 km to the south, in 1882.

Group: H chondrites
Recorded position: 33.283° N, 130.200° E

The map is centred on Ogi. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

Within 250 km lie seven other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Fukutomi	1882	L5	12 kg	11 km south
2	Higashi-koen	1897	H5	750 g	41 km north-east
3	Nogata	860	L6	472 g	71 km north-east
4	Kyushu	1886	L6	45 kg	145 km south
5	Yoshiki	1928	Unclassified stone	0.1 g	152 km north-east
6	Nio	1897	H3-4	467 g	162 km north-east

What H6 means

H6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Ogi ranks 19th of the 91 H6 falls. The nearest other H6 fall is Nantong in China, 796 km away. In date order among H6 falls, the one before Ogi is Vago (1668, Italy) and the one after is Bjelaja Zerkov (1796, Ukraine).

Dark ticks: 91 H6 falls, median 2.5 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Ogi in Japan’s record

Ogi is the fifth-heaviest of the 42 falls recorded in Japan. In date order Ogi is number 4 of the 42 falls recorded in Japan, which run from 860 to 2003. The fall recorded before Ogi in Japan is Sasagase (1688); the next is Hachi-oji (1817).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

Before 1800

Ogi is one of 35 falls dated before 1800. No fall outside Japan is dated 1741 in the record.