FALL OF BELFAST STONY METEORITE, GREAT BRITAIN

Name: BELFAST.

The place of fall or discovery: Near Belfast, Northern Ireland, Great Britain

Date of fall or discovery: FALL, April 25, 1969, at 21h 25m GMT.

Class and type: STONY, chondrite.

Number of individual specimens: 3.

Total weight: About 8 kg.

Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The fireball was seen all the way from Sussex through London, Doncaster and Yorkshire to Northern Ireland toward Belfast. It was moving from ESE to W NW very rapidly. There was a swishing noise and people reported explosions. The largest fragment of the meteorite weighing 7,400 g was found near the village of F ilrea, Londonderry County. Searches are being conducted.

Source: Information Reports No. 516-518, 520, 523-526 of the Center for Shortlived P1 enomena of the Smithsonian Institution, Cambridge, USA.