Komaki Meteorite


Return back to meteorite list

A chondrite fell on a private house in Komaki city, Aichi prefecture at 26, Sep. 2018.
This meteorite hit near the top of the roof of the house and made a damaged hole.
The meteorite broke a few parts of the roof and rebounded to the neighbor's house carport roof.
The meteorite hit and broke the carport acrylic roof. A part of the meteorite rebound back to the first house entrance.
Other parts of meteorites passed through the acrylic roof dented a car roof moreover rebounded to the entrance of this house.
This night was rain or cloud unluckily so that any TV or photographic images couldn't get.

The meteorite was analyzed at the "National Museum of Nature and Science" and other Institution and concluded as L6 group chondrite.


Komaki Meteorite fragment ___photographed in Nagoya City Science Museum

Fusion crust surface
melt by collision heat with the atmosphere
Fusion crust thickness
is about 1mm
Concrete color inside
include chondrule
A part of the fusion crust surface
shows many small cracks by cooling shrinkage

Carport's roof penetrated by meteorites

The meteorite broke the carport acrylic
plate roof and dent a car roof

Link
National Institute of Polar Research(in Japanese)
Nagoya city science museum(in Japanese)


©copyright 2022, Yasuo SHIBA, All Right Reserved