The Jilin meteorite is the most massive fall of stony meteorites on record; it happened near Jilin in Manchuria, northeastern China (44° 0' N, 126° 0' E) on 8 March 1976. Of the four tons of fragments of the type H5 chondrite recovered, one piece weighed 1.77 tons, produced an impact pit 6 meters deep (only a couple of hundred meters from the nearest house), and is the largest single fragment of stony meteorite ever found.