H-chondrite

Five new meteorites added

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Long overdue, I have added five more meteorites with photographic orbits recently published in the scientific literature. One is Aguas Zarcas (CM2), which was published by Jenniskens et al. 2025 in March of this year (available here). The other four (all ordinary chondrites: Haag (LL4-6; Austria), Pusté Úlany (H5; Slovakia), Renchen (L5-6; Germany) and Hradec Kralové (LL5; Czech Republic)) come from a compilation of 8 fireballs recorded by the European Fireball Network and with corresponding meteorites recovered in the last decade, by Spurný & Borovička 2025 (available here), in a contribution to this years’ MetSoc meeting (four of the meteorites were already part of the database – I will strive to add different orbit solutions by different authors in the next version of the website)   . This brings the total number of meteorites with published photographic orbits to 60.

Note 1: A nice review paper was published by Jenniskens & Devillepoix (2025) this spring. It contains a list of 75 meteorites with orbits, some from this compilation, and some others which I haven’t included so far as their orbit solutions are not published in the literature (yet, I hope). In the mean-time since publication of the review article, the list of meteorites with orbits has grown by the Haag (LL4-6) meteorite, also included in this update.

Note 2: for now, I will not further update the figures shown under “Plots”. The plan is to generate these automatically in the future.

Taghzout meteorite (H5) added

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Taghzout is the first meteorite with an orbit from Morocco, identified using the MOFID (Moroccan Observatory for Fireball Detection) after its fall in August 2021. Although the search area was relatively large at 18 km2 (5 km2 within the 1 sigma area), a single meteorite of 2.1 kg was eventually found, as reported by Guennoun et al. (2024) in an abstract submitted to the Meteoritical Society conference of 2024. Unfortunately, they only give the three most commonly given orbital elements (a, e, i) in the abstract, but not the argument of perihelion and the ascending node, so the orbit cannot be plotted in the usual projection.

Puli Ilkaringuru (H5) and Ischgl (LL6) added

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Puli Ilkaringuru is a H5 chondrite which fell in 2019 and was later found by the Australian Desert Fireball Network team. There is no paper yet, the orbital data are derived from the values given in the MetBull database, therefore, both the argument of perihelion and the longitude of the ascending node are not available (similar to the situation with Al-Khaddaf, Oman). I will add these values once properly published in a peer reviewed journal.

Ischgl (LL6) is a meteorite found in 1976 near the austrian village of Ischgl (close to the border with Switzerland). Only recently was it realized that a large fireball had terminated in the area, just a few years earlier, in 1970. A new publication by Gritsevich et al. suggests that this fireball is a very likely source for the Ischgl meteorite: it matches both the mass of the recovered meteorite, its find location and pristine condition. Also, the cosmogenic radionuclide and noble gas inventory of Ischgl can be brought into agreement with the inferred pre-atmospheric mass. This makes Ischgl the third-oldest meteorite (in historical sequence) with an orbit, predating the Innisfree fall by 7 years.

Full disclosure: I am a co-author on the Ischgl paper.

Santa Filomena (H5-6), Ådalen (Iron) and Al-Khadhaf (H5-6) added

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I have added three new meteorites to the list, which now lists 49 meteorites with published orbits. Santa Filomena (Tosi et al., 2023, MAPS) is a H5-6 fallen in Brazil in 2020, which has a considerable recovered mass (80 kg). Ådalen (Kyrylenko et al., 2023, ApJ), from Sweden, is the first iron meteorite with an orbit. Unfortunately, an ownership dispute (see e.g. here: Karmaka.de), now in appeal, still stands in the way of a detailed analysis of the meteorite, inlcuding the exact type and its publication in a Meteoritical Bulletin (I’ll note here that given the soon-to-launch mission to 16 Pysche, it would be very interesting to know more about the orbits of iron meteorites). Finally, Al-Khadhaf (H5-6; MetBull 112), with a very small recovered mass (ca. 22 g), is the first meteorite found with the help of a new camera network recently installed in Oman.