Shytal

Seen to fall in 1863 in Bangladesh · 3.2 kg recovered · L6

Shytal is the earliest of the eight falls recorded in Bangladesh. It is the third-heaviest of the four L6 falls recorded in Bangladesh. Muraid came down only 19 km to the north, in 1924.

Group: L chondrites
Recorded position: 24.333° N, 90.167° E

The map is centred on Shytal. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

Within 250 km lie nine other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Muraid	1924	L6	4.7 kg	19 km north
2	Dokachi	1903	H5	3.8 kg	94 km south
3	Gopalpur	1865	H6	1.6 kg	114 km west
4	Perpeti	1935	L6	23 kg	141 km south-east
5	Patwar	1935	Mesosiderite-A1	37 kg	167 km south-east
6	Bhola	1940	LL3-6	1 kg	190 km south

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 Shytal ranks 124th of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Muraid in Bangladesh, 19 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Shytal is Buschhof (1863, Romania) and the one after is Tourinnes-la-Grosse (1863, Belgium).

Dark ticks: 254 L6 falls, median 3 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Shytal in Bangladesh’s record

By recovered mass Shytal comes fifth of 8 there. The next fall recorded in Bangladesh is Gopalpur, in 1865.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1860s

Shytal is one of 56 falls dated to the 1860s. Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1863, among them Pillistfer in Estonia, Tourinnes-la-Grosse in Belgium, Buschhof in Romania.