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3.70 gram hammer stone fragment. H3-5
TKW 2.4 kg. Observed fall 20 May 2022, Cagayan Valley, Philippines.
  
Ramon writes:
The first Ponggo Meteorite fragment to reach Capital City of Philippines Manila on May 25, 2022.
On May 18, 2023, this specimen was certified by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts as the first Philippine meteorite recognized as a Registered Cultural Property of the Philippines with Registration No. 2023-0024.
On May 20, 2022, at around four o'clock in the afternoon, a house situated at Barangay Ponggo, Nagtipunan, Quirino Philippines was struck by a 2.4-kg stone that had a roughly east-to-west atmospheric trajectory. The meteorite first crashed through the two layers of roof before smashing a plastic plant pot into pieces and creating a palm-sized dent/crater on the concrete floor. According to the finder, he did not touch the stone right after it landed because it seemed to be too hot. A few seconds after the impact, the people within the vicinity heard three consecutive booming sounds. Due to its violent impact, a number of fragments were broken off the main piece. The scattered pieces, mixed with the soil from the pot, were collected using a magnet; and some of these fragments were given out to the relatives of the finder.
Through the collective efforts of Filipino meteorite collectors Mar Christian Cruz, David Joshua Magno, Ramon Santiago, and Allen Yu, enough specimens were acquired and used for classification and registration by Dr. Melinda Hutson and Mr. Daniel Sheikh from the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, in collaboration with Mr. Anthony Love from the Appalachian State University.
Ponggo Meteorite, named after the village where it landed, is the seventh Philippine meteorite officially registered in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. It is classified as an H3-5 (Ordinary Chondrite) – a stony meteorite with high metallic content and with differing textures of rounded grains known as chondrules.
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
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Ramon Santiago
1/31/2023 2:57:38 AM |
Hi Guys and MPOD Team! Thank you so much for featuring this meteorite on the day fragments were revealed to the public for the first time, We have successfully launched Ponggo The Philippine 7th Meteorite and People love it. We don't have the main mass but and only have small fragments and some parts of its hammer artifact but a lot of people appreciated it, especially the story on how it is registered. Thank you! |
John Lutzon
1/28/2023 3:28:10 PM |
After 4 billion years of thinking about it, it decided on a dramatic entrance, for sure. Thanks Ramon. |
Mitch Noda
1/28/2023 10:07:59 AM |
Nice write up and photo.
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