New Concord
Month:
May 2009
May's Meteorite of the Month is New Concord, an L6 ordinary chondrite, Group L6 that fell in Muskingum County, Ohio. Over thirty individual meteorite fragments weighing a combined 500 pounds fell in a broad swath over eastern central Ohio near 12:45 PM on May 1, 1860. The meteorites are named after the town nearest the largest concentration of stones, New Concord, home of Muskingum College and the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn.
New Concord meteorite. Photo by D. Ball, SESE/ASU.