Tahara

Tahara-machi, Japan

Fell 1991 March 26, 11:00 to 12:00 Japanese standard time

Ordinary chondrite (H5)

The meteorite was found on deck of the ship "M.S. CenturyHighway No.1", which was loading cars in the T-3 berth on Toyota-pier at Toyohashi harbour (Tahara district). When the crew came back from lunch after 12:00, they found meteorite fragments spread out from two impact dents in the steel deck, the larger measuring 20 x 6.5 cm and 3 cm depth, the smaller 17 cm away from it. From the size of the impact dent the total weight was estimated to more than 5 kg, but most of it was thrown into the ocean by the cleaning crew, only about 1 kg are preserved. No sound was heard accompanying the fall, but during car loading it was very noisy. Classification and analysis, olivine Fa19.4, pyroxene Fs17.3, Masako Shima, Akihiko Okada and Keisuke Nagao, National Science Museum, 7-20 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, where the main mass is located. Information, Masako Shima. Cosmogenic radionuclides, see Shimaetal. (1993).