Patwar
Seen to fall in 1935 in Bangladesh · 37 kg recovered · Mesosiderite-A1
Patwar is the heaviest of the eight falls recorded in Bangladesh, and of the three Mesosiderite-A1 falls. It is one of 11 stony-iron meteorites among the observed falls.
- Recorded position
- 23.150° N, 91.183° E
The map is centred on Patwar. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Patwar is Perpeti, 27 km to the north-west. Within 250 km lie seven other recorded falls.
What Mesosiderite-A1 means
Mesosiderite-A1 is the label for a mesosiderite, a breccia of metal and basaltic rock fragments. The nearest other Mesosiderite-A1 fall is Dyarrl Island in Papua New Guinea, 7,097 km away. In date order among Mesosiderite-A1 falls, the one before Patwar is Dyarrl Island (1933, Papua New Guinea).
Patwar in Bangladesh’s record
In date order Patwar is number 6 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 8 falls recorded in Bangladesh, which run from 1863 to 1940. The fall recorded before Patwar in Bangladesh is Muraid (1924); the next is Perpeti (1935).
The 1930s
Patwar is one of 88 falls dated to the 1930s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1935, among them Łowicz in Poland, Nikolaevka in Kazakhstan, Sungach in Russia.