Pampanga
Seen to fall in 1859 in the Philippines · 11 kg recovered · L5
Pampanga is the earliest and heaviest of the four falls recorded in the Philippines. It is the only L5 fall recorded in the Philippines.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 15.083° N, 120.700° E
The map is centred on Pampanga. Rings every 500 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Pampanga is Paitan, 297 km to the north. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Pampanga.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paitan | 1910 | H6 | 515 g | 297 km north |
| 2 | Calivo | 1916 | Unclassified stone | 2.4 kg | 411 km south-east |
| 3 | Pantar | 1938 | H5 | 2.1 kg | 872 km south-east |
| 4 | Yangchiang | 1954 | H5 | 20 kg | 1,199 km north-west |
| 5 | Yanzhuang | 1990 | H6 | 3.5 kg | 1,256 km north-west |
| 6 | Phuoc-Binh | 1941 | L5 | 11 kg | 1,352 km west |
What L5 means
L5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Pampanga ranks 22nd of the 76 L5 falls. The nearest other L5 fall is Phuoc-Binh in Vietnam, 1,352 km away. In date order among L5 falls, the one before Pampanga is Beuste (1859, France) and the one after is Muddoor (1865, India).
Pampanga in the Philippines’s record
The next fall recorded in the Philippines is Paitan, in 1910.
The 1850s
Pampanga is one of 36 falls dated to the 1850s. Elsewhere, the record lists three other falls in 1859: Beuste in France, Harrison County in the United States, Bethlehem in the United States.