Meteorite Fall Augsburg (952)
| Meteorite Fall Augsburg (952) | |
|---|---|
| place | augsburg |
| Fall time | Early August 952 |
| authenticity | controversial |
The Augsburg meteorite fall in 952 was an impact event in Germany.
This year, the first meteorite fall on Bavaria is suspected. The astronomer Hermann von Reichenau noted that eyewitnesses saw lumps of glowing iron in the air and a kite wandering around . But due to contradicting information in other sources, doubts remain.
Case reports
The German scholar Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni summarized the case descriptions from the various Latin chronicles in 1819 as follows: In 951 a glowing stone that had come from the west fell with thunderclaps near Augsburg.
Other sources also cite the event, but more or less repeat the first report. 500 years later, Albert von Stade (1587) writes : “A stone of astonishing size, thrown from the sky with thunder and roar, offered many viewers a mighty spectacle near Augsburg ” (translated from Latin). Another 300 years later August Wilhelm Schlegel also describes the incident in his "Notes about a meteor stone that fell near Augsburg". In 1814 he found that this stone fall caused even more sensation, as many princes and a crowd of people were gathered here. It was after Easter and the day should be easy to calculate.
Inconsistencies
Incorrect dating of the Reichstag in Augsburg
Chladni expressed doubts about the truth of the report: to him the construction was so ambiguous that it seemed uncertain whether the stone had fallen in Augsburg or in Italy . The first case report, published around 80 years after the alleged case in the chronicle of Hermann von Reichenau (1013-1054), dates the event a year too early:
“In 951 a synod of 25 bishops and a large convention of the princes of the whole empire (Reichstag) come together near Augsburg, where Berengar also comes to surrender to King Otto, with the proclamation of his submission. Among other significant phenomena, a flint, like a lump of glowing iron, came through the air and a dragon was seen wandering (translated from Latin) "
The Augsburg Reichstag is historically clearly documented, it took place in August 952 on the Lechfeld. Since the meteorite was first reported to have been sighted during the convention, it must have fallen in 952.
literature
- Bavarian State Office for the Environment : Out of this world. Bavaria's meteorite. Self-published, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936385-92-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for the Environment: Not of this world. Bavaria's meteorite. 2012, p. 19.
- ↑ a b E. FF Chladni: About the cosmic origin of the meteorites and fireballs. In: Ostwald's classics. Volume 258, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig K.-G., Leipzig 1794, p. 103.
- ^ AW Schlegel: Notes on a meteor stone that fell near Augsburg in 951. In: Annals of Physics. Volume 47, Leipzig, 105-107.