Paragould
Seen to fall in 1930 in the United States · 408 kg recovered · LL5
Paragould has the ninth-largest recovered mass of the 1,063 observed falls in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the second-heaviest of the 146 falls recorded in the United States. It is the heaviest of the 19 LL5 falls.
- Group
- LL chondrites
- Recorded position
- 36.067° N, 90.500° W
The map is centred on Paragould. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Paragould is Success, 49 km to the north. Within 250 km lie eight other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Success | 1924 | L6 | 3.5 kg | 49 km north |
| 2 | Cape Girardeau | 1846 | H6 | 2.3 kg | 156 km north-east |
| 3 | Miller (Arkansas) | 1930 | H5 | 17 kg | 158 km south-west |
| 4 | Norfork | 1918 | Iron, IIIAB | 1.1 kg | 160 km west |
| 5 | Murray | 1950 | CM2 | 13 kg | 223 km east |
| 6 | Baldwyn | 1922 | L6 | 345 g | 241 km south-east |
What LL5 means
LL5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron and low metal, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. The nearest other LL5 fall is Richmond in the United States, 1,167 km away. In date order among LL5 falls, the one before Paragould is Olivenza (1924, Spain) and the one after is Konovo (1931, Bulgaria).
Paragould in the United States’s record
In date order Paragould is number 78 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. The fall recorded before Paragould in the United States is Miller (Arkansas) (1930); the next is Plantersville (1930).
The 1930s
Paragould recovered the most mass of the 88 falls dated to the same decade. Elsewhere, the record lists eight other falls in 1930, among them Karoonda in Australia, Oldenburg (1930) in Germany, Moorleah in Australia.