Mbosi

A find, recorded in 1930 in Tanzania · 16 tonnes recovered · Iron, ungrouped

Mbosi ranks tenth by recovered mass among the 30,841 meteorite finds with a complete record in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). It is the only find with a complete record in Tanzania. Only one observed fall recovered more.

Group: Iron meteorites
Recorded position: 9.117° S, 33.067° E

Rings every 100 km.

Seen-to-fall neighbours

Ishinga, 83 km to the east, is the nearest meteorite that someone saw arrive (1954). In 1930, the year Mbosi entered the record, 11 meteorites were seen to fall: Paragould in the United States, Karoonda in Australia, Miller (Arkansas) in the United States and eight others.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Ishinga	1954	H	1.3 kg	83 km east
2	Ivuna	1938	CI1	705 g	104 km north-west
3	Chisenga	1988	Iron, IIIAB	3.9 kg	111 km south
4	Mtola	1944	Unclassified stone	1.1 kg	269 km south
5	Peramiho	1899	Eucrite-mmict	165 g	317 km south-east

Mbosi among other finds

In the record, 93 finds carry the label Iron, ungrouped, against four observed falls. The closest fall of the same group (iron, ungrouped) is Soroti, 1,204 km away in Uganda, one of four such falls. Among the other giant finds, Hoba lies closest: 2,002 km away. Worldwide, the finds just above and below it are Bacubirito (22 tonnes) and Willamette (16 tonnes).

Against the observed falls

Grey: all 1,063 observed falls, median 2.9 kg (dotted).