Sutter's Mill

Seen to fall in 2012 in the United States · 993 g recovered · C

Sutter's Mill is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed C. The nearest other recorded fall is Red Canyon Lake, 125 km to the south-east.

Group: Carbonaceous chondrites
Recorded position: 38.804° N, 120.908° W

The map is centred on Sutter's Mill. Rings every 250 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Red Canyon Lake	2007	H5	18 g	125 km south-east
2	Battle Mountain	2012	L6	2.9 kg	380 km north-east
3	San Juan Capistrano	1973	H6	56 g	659 km south-east
4	Salem	1981	L6	61 g	707 km north
5	Washougal	1939	Howardite	225 g	763 km north
6	Garland	1950	Diogenite-pm	102 g	810 km north-east

What C means

C is the label for a carbonaceous chondrite without an assigned group in this record.

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 44 falls in the group carbonaceous chondrites.

Sutter's Mill in the United States’s record

In date order Sutter's Mill is number 145 (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 Sutter's Mill comes 95th of 146 there. The fall recorded before Sutter's Mill in the United States is Battle Mountain, in 2012.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 2010s

Sutter's Mill is one of 12 falls dated to the 2010s. No fall outside the United States is dated 2012 in the record.