Willamette

A find, recorded in 1902 in the United States · 16 tonnes recovered · Iron, IIIAB

Willamette ranks 11th 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 second-heaviest. Only one observed fall recovered more.

Group: Iron meteorites
Recorded position: 45.367° N, 122.583° W

Rings every 250 km.

Seen-to-fall neighbours

Washougal, 30 km to the north-east, is the nearest meteorite that someone saw arrive (1939). In 1902, the year Willamette entered the record, seven meteorites were seen to fall: Bath Furnace in the United States, Marjalahti in Russia, Mount Browne in Australia and four others.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Washougal	1939	Howardite	225 g	30 km north-east
2	Salem	1981	L6	61 g	53 km south-west
3	Battle Mountain	2012	L6	2.9 kg	682 km south-east
4	Revelstoke	1965	CI1	1 g	716 km north
5	Sutter's Mill	2012	C	993 g	743 km south

Willamette among other finds

In the record, 256 finds carry the label Iron, IIIAB, against 10 observed falls. The closest fall of the same group (iron IIIAB) is Cabin Creek, 2,676 km away in the United States, one of 11 such falls. Among the other giant finds, Goose Lake lies closest: 411 km away. Worldwide, the finds just above and below it are Mbosi (16 tonnes) and Morito (10 tonnes).

Finds recorded in the United States, by recovered mass
Rank	Find	Class	Recorded	Recovered
1	Canyon Diablo	Iron, IAB-MG	1891	30 tonnes
2	Willamette	Iron, IIIAB	1902	16 tonnes
3	Brenham	Pallasite, PMG-an	1882	4.3 tonnes

Against the observed falls

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