Zaisho

Seen to fall in 1898 in Japan · 330 g recovered · Pallasite, PMG-an

Zaisho is the only fall in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013) classed Pallasite, PMG-an. It is one of 11 stony-iron meteorites among the observed falls.

Group: Stony-iron meteorites
Recorded position: 33.700° N, 133.800° E

The map is centred on Zaisho. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Zaisho is Kokubunji, 68 km to the north. Within 250 km lie 11 other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Kokubunji	1986	L6	12 kg	68 km north
2	Tomita	1916	L	600 g	89 km north
3	Urasaki	1926	Unclassified stone	1.5 kg	99 km north-west
4	Hiroshima	2003	H5	414 g	155 km north-west
5	Kobe	1999	CK4	136 g	170 km north-east
6	Okano	1904	Iron, IIAB	4.7 kg	200 km north-east

What Pallasite, PMG-an means

Pallasite, PMG-an is the label for a pallasite, olivine crystals set in iron-nickel metal.

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 11 falls in the group stony-iron meteorites.

Zaisho in Japan’s record

In date order Zaisho is number 15 of the 42 falls recorded in Japan, which run from 860 to 2003. By recovered mass Zaisho comes 35th of 42 there. The fall recorded before Zaisho in Japan is Nio (1897); the next is Okano (1904).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1890s

Zaisho is one of 51 falls dated to the 1890s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1898, among them Quesa in Spain, Andover in the United States, Mariaville in the United States.