Navajo
A find, recorded in 1921 in the United States · 2.2 tonnes recovered · Iron, IIAB
Navajo ranks 27th by recovered mass among the 30,841 meteorite finds with a complete record in NASA’s Meteorite Landings dataset (records to 2013). Of the 1,503 complete find records in the United States, it is the fifth-heaviest. Only two observed falls recovered more.
- Group
- Iron meteorites
- Recorded position
- 35.333° N, 109.500° W
Rings every 200 km.
Seen-to-fall neighbours
Holbrook, 79 km to the south-west, is the nearest meteorite that someone saw arrive (1912). In 1921, the year Navajo entered the record, eight meteorites were seen to fall: Tuan Tuc in Vietnam, Rose City in the United States, Pitts in the United States and five others.
Navajo among other finds
In the record, 101 finds carry the label Iron, IIAB, against six observed falls. The closest fall of the same group (iron IIAB) is Sikhote-Alin, 8,914 km away in Russia, one of six such falls. Among the other giant finds, Canyon Diablo lies closest: 143 km away. Worldwide, the finds just above and below it are Huckitta (2.3 tonnes) and Coahuila (2.1 tonnes).
| Rank | Find | Class | Recorded | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Old Woman | Iron, IIAB | 1976 | 2.8 tonnes |
| 5 | Navajo | Iron, IIAB | 1921 | 2.2 tonnes |
| 6 | Odessa (iron) | Iron, IAB-MG | 1922 | 1.6 tonnes |