Park Forest
Seen to fall in 2003 in the United States · 18 kg recovered · L5
Park Forest is the third-heaviest of the 11 L5 falls recorded in the United States. The nearest other recorded fall is Hamlet, 91 km to the east. By recovered mass it ranks 13th of the 58 falls dated to the same decade.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 41.485° N, 87.679° W
The map is centred on Park Forest. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Within 250 km lie five other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamlet | 1959 | LL4 | 3.7 kg | 91 km east |
| 2 | Rochester | 1876 | H6 | 340 g | 125 km east |
| 3 | Bloomington | 1938 | LL6 | 68 g | 158 km south-west |
| 4 | Allegan | 1899 | H5 | 32 kg | 189 km north-east |
| 5 | Noblesville | 1991 | H4-6 | 484 g | 207 km south-east |
| 6 | Mifflin | 2010 | L5 | 3.6 kg | 272 km north-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 Park Forest ranks 15th of the 76 L5 falls. The nearest other L5 fall is Mifflin in the United States, 272 km away. In date order among L5 falls, the one before Park Forest is Ouadangou (2003, Burkina Faso) and the one after is Jodiya (2006, India).
Park Forest in the United States’s record
In date order Park Forest is number 136 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 146 falls recorded in the United States, which run from 1807 to 2012. By recovered mass Park Forest comes 27th of 146 there. The fall recorded before Park Forest in the United States is New Orleans (2003); the next is Berthoud (2004).
The 2000s
Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 2003, among them Oum Dreyga in Western Sahara, Kasauli in India, Kendrapara in India.