Łowicz
Seen to fall in 1935 in Poland · 59 kg recovered · Mesosiderite-A3
Łowicz is the second-heaviest of the 10 falls recorded in Poland. It is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed Mesosiderite-A3. It is one of 11 stony-iron meteorites among the observed falls.
- Recorded position
- 52.000° N, 19.917° E
The map is centred on Łowicz. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Łowicz is Baszkówka, 70 km to the east. Within 250 km lie four other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baszkówka | 1994 | L5 | 16 kg | 70 km east |
| 2 | Pultusk | 1868 | H5 | 250 kg | 125 km north-east |
| 3 | Ratyn | 1880 | Unclassified stone | 910 g | 134 km west |
| 4 | Grzempach | 1910 | H5 | 690 g | 243 km north-west |
| 5 | Bialystok | 1827 | Eucrite-pmict | 4 kg | 253 km north-east |
| 6 | Sołtmany | 2011 | L6 | 1.1 kg | 263 km north-east |
What Mesosiderite-A3 means
Mesosiderite-A3 is the label for a mesosiderite, a breccia of metal and basaltic rock fragments.
Łowicz in Poland’s record
In date order Łowicz is number 8 of the 10 falls recorded in Poland, which run from 1715 to 2011. The fall recorded before Łowicz in Poland is Grzempach (1910); the next is Baszkówka (1994).
The 1930s
Łowicz is one of 88 falls dated to the 1930s. Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1935, among them Patwar in Bangladesh, Perpeti in Bangladesh, Nikolaevka in Kazakhstan.