Veramin
Seen to fall in 1880 in Iran · 54 kg recovered · Mesosiderite-B2
Veramin is the heaviest of the two falls recorded in Iran. It is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed Mesosiderite-B2. It is one of 11 stony-iron meteorites among the observed falls.
- Recorded position
- 35.333° N, 51.633° E
The map is centred on Veramin. Rings every 250 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Veramin is Naragh, 176 km to the south. Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.
What Mesosiderite-B2 means
Mesosiderite-B2 is the label for a mesosiderite, a breccia of metal and basaltic rock fragments.
Veramin in Iran’s record
Iran has one other recorded fall: Naragh, in 1974.
The 1880s
Veramin is one of 40 falls dated to the 1880s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1880, among them Andhara in India, Wittekrantz in South Africa, Ratyn in Poland.