List of meteorites in Bavaria
Between 1768 and 2016, ten meteorites are reported in Bavaria . Only nine of them are scientifically recognized today, two of which are no longer Bavarian meteorites according to today's definition due to historical border shifts. Ultimately, there are currently seven officially recognized meteorites that fell on Bavarian soil. Reports that go back even earlier are not credible enough. The number of cases or finds seems small, but it is not. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, only 315 fell in the whole of Europe (observed) between 1768 and 2014. When scaled down to the area of Bavaria, only two instead of seven should have been observed and found during the period.
list
Surname | Coordinates | Location | Mass in grams |
class | Fall date or year of discovery |
origin | Collection / whereabouts | comment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Bad Rodach) | 50 ° 21 '00.0 " N , 010 ° 48' 00.0" O | Bad Rodach , Bavaria | 3600 | unknown | Fall | September 19, 1775Asteroid Hebe? | lost | Report of a mysterious "blue lump" which has never been analyzed and is lost. Since meteorites are not blue in color and the material of the object can no longer be examined, the case is now classified as unrecognized. |
Eichstädt | 48 ° 51 ′ 00.0 ″ N , 011 ° 07 ′ 00.0 ″ E | Eichstätt , Bavaria | 3200 | Ordinary chondrite (H5) | Fall, | February 19, 1785Asteroid Hebe? | Natural History Museum Vienna , ETH Zurich a . a. | Officially recognized case |
(Crows Mountain) | 49 ° 19 '37.0 " N , 007 ° 27' 53.0" E | Krähenberg , Rhineland-Palatinate | 16500 | Common Chondrite (LL5) | Fall May 5, 1869 | Asteroid Itokawa? | Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP in Thallichtenberg / Pfalz | According to today's definition, it is located in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and is no longer included in the official list of Bavarian meteorites. |
Power stone | 48 ° 17 '03.0 " N , 011 ° 18' 49.0" E | Schwabhausen (Upper Bavaria) , Bavaria | 1422 | Ordinary chondrite (H5) | Find, 1956? Rediscovery in | 2014Asteroid Hebe? | Museum Empire of Crystals , (Munich) | Officially recognized find |
Mässing | 48 ° 23 '00.0 " N , 012 ° 36' 00.0" E | Eggenfelden , Bavaria | 1600 | Achondrite (howardite) | Fall | December 13, 1803Asteroid Vesta? | Museum of Natural History (Berlin) a . a. | Officially recognized case |
(Walled churches) | 48 ° 11 ′ 00.0 ″ N , 013 ° 08 ′ 00.0 ″ E | Mauerkirchen , Upper Austria | 21300 | Chondrite (L6) | Fall, | November 20, 1768Asteroid flora? | Museum Empire of Crystals , (Munich) a. a. | According to today's definition, it is located in Austria and is no longer included in the official list of Bavarian meteorites. |
Neuschwanstein | 47 ° 31 '30.0 " N , 010 ° 48' 30.0" O | Schwangau , Bavaria | 6218 | Enstatite chondrite (EL6) | Fall April 6, 2002 | Asteroid Mithra? | Rieskrater Museum , Nördlingen u. a. | Officially recognized case |
Schönenberg | 48 ° 21 '00.0 " N , 010 ° 24' 00.0" E | Jettingen-Scheppach , Bavaria | 8000 | Common chondrite (L6) | Fall, | December 25, 1846Asteroid flora? | Hungarian Natural Science Museum , Budapest a . a. | Officially recognized case |
Stubenberg | 48 ° 18 ′ 00.0 ″ N , 013 ° 05 ′ 00.0 ″ E | Stubenberg (Lower Bavaria) , Bavaria | 1320 | Common Chondrite (LL6) | Fall March 6, 2016 | not yet known | currently partly in private ownership | Officially recognized case |
Undermassing | 49 ° 05 ′ 25.0 ″ N , 011 ° 20 ′ 00.0 ″ E | Greding , Bavaria | 80000 | Octahedrite (IIC) | Find, | 1920Asteroid psyche? | Natural History Museum Nuremberg u. a. | Officially recognized find |
More meteorite falls in Bavaria
There were other officially recognized meteorite falls in Bavaria, but no meteorite rock was found. These include the Schäftlarn meteorite fall (1722) and the Otterskirchen meteorite fall (1969) . In the case of the Waldau meteorite fall in 1809, the initially believed location of Waldau is incorrect. More likely a place in Normandy in France, L'Aigle .
See also
literature
- Bavarian State Office for the Environment : Out of this world. Bavaria's meteorite. Self-published, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936385-92-2 .
- The Munich Show - Mineralientage München - The theme book METEORITEN. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster / Hamburg / Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-05451-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Three stones. Two pieces (1.750 kg and 1.625 kg) were recovered in Bavarian territory, one (2.843 kg) in Tyrolean territory. The coordinates given here indicate the position where the first piece was found.
- ↑ Several fragments and splinters in the gram range were recovered. The coordinates given here indicate the find position of the currently largest fragment.