Tagish Lake
Seen to fall in 2000 in Canada · 10 kg recovered · C2-ung
Tagish Lake is the heaviest of the three C2-ung falls. It has no other recorded fall within 1,036 km; only six falls in the record sit farther from their nearest neighbour.
- Recorded position
- 59.704° N, 134.201° W
The map is centred on Tagish Lake. Rings every 500 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Tagish Lake is Peace River, 1,036 km to the east. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Tagish Lake.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peace River | 1963 | L6 | 46 kg | 1,036 km east |
| 2 | Revelstoke | 1965 | CI1 | 1 g | 1,331 km south-east |
| 3 | Abee | 1952 | EH4 | 107 kg | 1,415 km east |
| 4 | Beaver Creek | 1893 | H5 | 14 kg | 1,419 km south-east |
| 5 | Bruderheim | 1960 | L6 | 303 kg | 1,441 km east |
| 6 | Vilna | 1967 | L5 | 0.1 g | 1,485 km east |
What C2-ung means
C2-ung is the label for an ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite of petrologic type 2, strongly water-altered. Tagish Lake is one of 44 carbonaceous chondrites among the observed falls. The nearest other C2-ung fall is Bells in the United States, 3,991 km away. In date order among C2-ung falls, the one before Tagish Lake is Bells (1961, the United States).
Tagish Lake in Canada’s record
In date order Tagish Lake is number 14 of the 16 falls recorded in Canada, which run from 1887 to 2009. By recovered mass Tagish Lake comes ninth of 16 there. The fall recorded before Tagish Lake in Canada is Kitchener (1998); the next is Buzzard Coulee (2008).
The 2000s
Tagish Lake is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists two other falls in 2000: Yafa in Yemen, Morávka in the Czech Republic.