Rahimyar Khan
Seen to fall in 1983 in Pakistan · 67 kg recovered · L5
Rahimyar Khan is the most recent and heaviest of the 15 falls recorded in Pakistan. It is the heaviest of the three L5 falls recorded in Pakistan.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 28.225° N, 70.200° E
The map is centred on Rahimyar Khan. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Rahimyar Khan is Garhi Yasin, 168 km to the west. Within 250 km lie five other recorded falls.
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 Rahimyar Khan ranks fifth of the 76 L5 falls. The nearest other L5 fall is Jhung in Pakistan, 402 km away. In date order among L5 falls, the one before Rahimyar Khan is Cilimus (1979, Indonesia) and the one after is Palca de Aparzo (1988, Argentina).
Rahimyar Khan in Pakistan’s record
The fall recorded before Rahimyar Khan in Pakistan is Kulak, in 1961.
The 1980s
Rahimyar Khan is one of 54 falls dated to the 1980s. Elsewhere, the record lists three other falls in 1983: Kidairat in Sudan, Ningqiang in China, Maryville in the United States.