Yambo

Seen to fall in 1951 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo · 4 g recovered · H5

Yambo is one of the smallest recoveries in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013): only eight falls were logged with less. It is the only H5 fall recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Group: H chondrites
Recorded position: 1.000° N, 22.500° E

The map is centred on Yambo. Rings every 500 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Yambo is Alberta, 113 km to the north. Within 250 km lies one other recorded fall.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Alberta	1949	L	625 g	113 km north
2	Bali	1907	CV3	1 kg	836 km north-west
3	Maridi	1941	H6	3.2 kg	853 km north-east
4	Ruhobobo	1976	L6	466 g	860 km east
5	Maziba	1942	L6	5 kg	870 km east
6	Essebi	1957	C2-ung	500 g	949 km east

What H5 means

H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. The nearest other H5 fall is Geidam in Nigeria, 1,765 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Yambo is Vengerovo (1950, Russia) and the one after is Arbol Solo (1954, Argentina).

Dark ticks: 159 H5 falls, median 3 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Yambo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s record

In date order Yambo is number 2 (shared with a fall of the same year) of the 4 falls recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which run from 1949 to 1957. The fall recorded before Yambo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Kalaba (1951); the next is Essebi (1957).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1950s

Yambo is one of 58 falls dated to the 1950s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1951, among them Elenovka in Ukraine, Manych in Russia, Dubrovnik in Croatia.