List of meteorites in Austria

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A total of eight meteorites have so far been recovered in the area of Austria within its current borders , of which material is still available today. The fall of the meteorite was also observed in five before the discovery. All of these meteorites are stone meteorites and are classified as chondrites .

Surname Coordinates Location Dimensions class Fall date
or year of discovery
Ischgl 47 ° 2 '  N , 10 ° 16'  E Ischgl , Tyrol 724 g Common Chondrite (LL6) Fund, 1976
Lanzenkirchen 47 ° 45 '  N , 16 ° 14'  E Lanzenkirchen , Lower Austria 7 kg Common chondrite (L4) Fall, August 28, 1925
Wall churches 48 ° 11 '  N , 13 ° 8'  E Mauerkirchen , Upper Austria 21 kg Common chondrite (L6) Fall, November 20, 1768
Minnichhof 47 ° 32 '  N , 16 ° 38'  E Croatian Minihof , Burgenland 550 g Ordinary chondrite Fall, May 27, 1905
Mühlau 47 ° 17 '  N , 11 ° 25'  E Innsbruck-Mühlau , Tyrol 5 g Ordinary chondrite Find, around 1877
Neuschwanstein 47 ° 31 '  N , 10 ° 49'  E Reutte , Tyrol 6.218 kg Enstatite chondrite (EL6) Fall April 6, 2002
Prambachkirchen 48 ° 18 '  N , 13 ° 56'  E Prambachkirchen , Upper Austria 2.125 kg Common chondrite (L6) Fall, November 5, 1932
Ybbsitz 47 ° 58 '  N , 14 ° 58'  E Ybbsitz , Lower Austria 14.6 kg Ordinary chondrite (H4) Fund, 1977
Remarks
  1. ↑ Was only identified as a meteorite in 2008 and presented to the public in the Natural History Museum Vienna in 2012 , see [1] ; the scientific description was published in 2013: Brandstätter, F., J. Konzett, C. Koeberl & L. Ferrière (2013): The Ischgl meteorite, a new LL6 chondrite from Tyrol, Austria. Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Series A, 115, 5–18 [2] .
  2. ↑ Two stones, 5 kg and 2 kg.
  3. ↑ At the time of the fall, Mauerkirchen belonged to Bavaria .
  4. ↑ See: H. Raab & E. Reiter (2017): On the 250th anniversary of the meteorite fall in Mauerkirchen, Upper Austria. Upper Austria Geonachrichten, 32, 3–24.
  5. ↑ Michael Hirschler: The meteorite from Croatian Minihof / Mjenovo . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . tape 3 & 4 , no. 81 , 2019, ISSN  1018-6107 , p. 144-159 .
  6. ↑ Three stones. The third and largest stone of the fall at 2.843 kg was found in Tyrolean territory. The coordinates given here indicate the location of this item. The name of the meteorite refers to the location of the first two stones of the fall (1.750 kg and 1.625 kg), which were recovered in Bavarian territory not far from Neuschwanstein Castle . The official meteorite database of the Meteoritical Society assigns the meteorites to Germany on the basis of their original location.

See also

literature

  • Monica M. Grady: Catalog of Meteorites. 5th edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000 ISBN 978-0-521-66303-8
  • Franz Brandstätter, et al .: Meteorites - Contemporary witnesses of the formation of the solar system. Verlag des Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902421-68-5 , pp. 166–175

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