FALL OF EHOLE STONY METEORITE, ANGOLA

Name: EHOLE

The place of fall or discovery:  Ehole, near the village of Namakunde, Angola, Africa; approximately 4 km from the border of South-West Africa.

Date of fall or discovery: FALL, August 31, 1961, about 16 hrs. 45 min. local time.

Class and type: STONY, crystalline chondrite.

The number of individual specimens: 2.

Total Weight: Unknown.

The circumstances of the fall or discovery: The movement of the stones from west to east was he­ard. The sound resembled that of thunder accompa­nied by a cracking like machinegun fire. Local inha­bitants heard the meteorite strike the ground. Imme­diately afterwards two stones, which fell at a distance of about 400 metres from each other, were discovered burrowed in the sand at a depth of approximately 25 cm.  The specimen received by the Smithsonian Astrophysi­cal Observatory weighed 2.4 kg. Part of the specimen, weighing 1530 gr, has been transfered to the United States National Museum at Washington, USA.

Source: Letter from Dr. John A. Wood (Cambridge, USA), to E. L. Krinov, November 17, 1961.