Yoshiki
Seen to fall in 1928 in Japan · 0.1 g recovered · Unclassified stone
Yoshiki has the smallest recovered mass of any fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). By recovered mass it ranks 68th of the 68 falls dated to the same decade. Nio came down only 11 km to the east, in 1897.
- Group
- Unclassified stones
- Recorded position
- 34.167° N, 131.450° E
The map is centred on Yoshiki. Rings every 50 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
Within 250 km lie 12 other recorded falls.
What Unclassified stone means
Unclassified stone is the label for a stony meteorite that was never assigned to a group. The nearest other Unclassified stone fall is Urasaki in Japan, 172 km away. In date order among Unclassified stone falls, the one before Yoshiki is Urasaki (1926, Japan) and the one after is Mtola (1944, Malawi).
Yoshiki in Japan’s record
In date order Yoshiki is number 29 of the 42 falls recorded in Japan, which run from 860 to 2003. The fall recorded before Yoshiki in Japan is Urasaki (1926); the next is Kasamatsu (1938).
The 1920s
Elsewhere, the record lists five other falls in 1928, among them Naoki in India, Utzenstorf in Switzerland, Isthilart in Argentina.