* Astronomy

A small stone weighing about I50 g fell at 11.53 a.m. on 14 April 1931 at Coch-y-Bug farm (53° 2' I2" N, 4° I9' I0" W), one mile SE of Pontlyfni (Pont Llyfni) bridge and post office and 7"5 miles SSW of Caernarvon, Wales. After hearing a series of detonations and a low whistling, Mr. Lloyd Jones, a farmer, was further startled by a thud as an object fell only six paces from where he was standing in a grassy field, making a hole about nine inches deep. His son, Mr. Aneurin Jones, recovered the meteorite from this hole, shortly after the fall. In 1931 the stone passed into the possession of Mr. J. R. Owen from whom it was acquired by the British Museum (Natural History) in 1975; the stone then weighed I46 g. It was an almost complete ovoid individual (BM 2975, M.6), with fusion crust over most of its surface. The interior is dark, hard, and coherent, and metal and sulphides are abundant.
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