Tenham
Seen to fall in 1879 in Australia · 160 kg recovered · L6
Tenham is the earliest and second-heaviest of the 15 falls recorded in Australia. It is the heaviest of the five L6 falls recorded in Australia.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 25.733° S, 142.950° E
The map is centred on Tenham. Rings every 500 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Tenham is Mount Browne, 469 km to the south. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Tenham.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Browne | 1902 | H6 | 11 kg | 469 km south |
| 2 | Rockhampton | 1895 | Unclassified stone | 1.6 kg | 808 km east |
| 3 | Forest Vale | 1942 | H4 | 26 kg | 927 km south-east |
| 4 | Emmaville | 1900 | Eucrite-mmict | 127 g | 949 km south-east |
| 5 | Karoonda | 1930 | CK4 | 42 kg | 1,079 km south |
| 6 | Dunbogan | 1999 | L6 | 30 g | 1,167 km south-east |
What L6 means
L6 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 6, strongly heated on its parent body. Tenham carries about 53 times the median recovered mass of L6 falls. By recovered mass Tenham ranks seventh of the 254 L6 falls. The nearest other L6 fall is Dunbogan in Australia, 1,167 km away. In date order among L6 falls, the one before Tenham is La Bécasse (1879, France) and the one after is Grossliebenthal (1881, Ukraine).
Tenham in Australia’s record
The next fall recorded in Australia is Rockhampton, in 1895.
The 1870s
Tenham is one of 51 falls dated to the 1870s. Elsewhere, the record lists seven other falls in 1879, among them Estherville in the United States, Kalumbi in India, Nogoya in Argentina.