Populations of meteorite types. US Ant. finds wt. 77.0 79.5 Carb.chond. 3.1 0.8 5.2 Enst. 17.6 4.3 Total met.
Meteorites often fall as showers of a few to many fragments.
When this happens most places in the world, all fragments are grouped together as the same meteorite. It is relatively simple to evaluate pairing among the less common meteorite types. Meteorites that are similar to each other and collected in close proximity are most likely from the same fall. There are 150 pairing groups among the 5700 classified meteorites, with 2-678 meteorites per group. There are, however, only 16 groups with over 10 meteorites and of these only 5 groups have over 25 meteorites.