Meteorite Fall Inningen (1998)
| Meteorite Fall Inningen (1998) | |
|---|---|
| Official meteorite name | Inningen - a synonym for Sikhote-Alin |
| Locality | allegedly on the road between the two Augsburg districts of Inningen and Haunstetten ; Actual location: Sikhote-Alin ( Russia ) |
| Fall time | allegedly in September 1998; but probably 10:38 a.m. local time on February 12, 1947 |
| description | Iron meteorite ( octahedrite ); 1,214.5 grams; one of the many thousands of meteorite fragments of the approximately 100 tons heavy iron meteorite Sikhote-Alin (meteorite) |
| authenticity | real meteorite, wrong location |
The Inningen meteorite fall in 1998 is the name given to an impact event in Germany. It later turned out to be a fake.
history
After a meteorite had already fallen on Augsburg in 952 and 1528, a walker contacted Michael Schieber, the then director of the Rieskrater Museum , in September 1998 . He found an iron meteorite weighing 1.2 kilograms on the road between the two Augsburg districts of Inningen and Haunstetten near Augsburg .
Schieber referred the finder to the Max Planck Institute for Cosmochemistry in Mainz . The institute confirmed the authenticity of a meteorite on a sample of the stone. The stone contained nickel , gallium , germanium and iridium in amounts that are only known from meteorites. In the course of the chemical analysis of the "Inninger" meteorite , however, a great similarity to the previously found fragments of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite , which fell at 10:38 local time on February 12, 1947 in eastern Siberia , emerged.
A Bavarian iron meteorite, because of its great rarity, would have made a significantly higher profit than the Sikhote-Alin fragments offered on every mineral exchange. The object is now in the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main .
In 2011, Inningen was officially withdrawn as a real meteorite site. "The Meteoritical Society" writes that there is no longer any doubt that this iron meteorite is part of the Sikhote-Alin case.
literature
- Bavarian State Office for the Environment : Out of this world. Bavaria's meteorite. Self-published, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936385-92-2 .