A 12-seer stone fell during thunder near Hissar, India, in 1834

On the 8th of June, 1834, a stone fell at Charwallas, a village twenty three coss. (thirty nine three fourth miles) west of Hissar, near Delhi, Hindoostan.

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What the AI says

The journal, citing the Journal of the Asiatic Society, reports that a stone fell on 8 June 1834 at Charwallas, west of Hissar, after about half an hour of loud thunder-like noise. It fell in the jungle near a herdsman and originally weighed twelve seers, but visitors broke it up and scattered the fragments. The notice gives a specific gravity of 3.6 and says the stone affects a magnet. It is unclear whether any fragments survive in collections today, or under what name.

How forgotten?

little-known · A fall near Hissar in 1834 may be listed in meteorite catalogues under a variant name such as Chandakapur or similar, but I cannot confirm this. The village spelling here is old and uncertain, so the fall could easily be overlooked.

Web check

Unclear · The search only turned up the historic archive index (meteoritehistory.info), which lists a Charwallas 1834 report. That is the same source family as the find. I found no independent modern catalogue entry, such as the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, for this specific fall. (10 sources seen)

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Significance

5 / 10

Cost to find

$0.07 (reading the page $0.0005, checking $0.07)

Source

The American journal of science and arts (v. 30 1836), 1820

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