Perpeti
Seen to fall in 1935 in Bangladesh · 23 kg recovered · L6
Perpeti is the second-heaviest of the eight falls recorded in Bangladesh. It is the heaviest of the four L6 falls recorded in Bangladesh.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 23.325° N, 91.000° E
The map is centred on Perpeti. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Perpeti is Patwar, 27 km to the south-east. Within 250 km lie seven other recorded falls.
What L6 means
L6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Perpeti ranks 38th of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Shytal in Bangladesh, 141 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Perpeti is Madiun (1935, Indonesia) and the one after is Kaptal-Aryk (1937, Kazakhstan).
Perpeti in Bangladesh’s record
In date order Perpeti 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 Perpeti in Bangladesh is Patwar (1935); the next is Bhola (1940).
The 1930s
Perpeti 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.