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Description Eichstadt fell in Bavaria on Feb 19, 1785 and is an extremely rare and historic location. According to a worker at a brick kiln, a loud "thunderclap" was heard around noon followed by the fall of a black stone from the sky. The meteorite was reportedly hot to the touch and had to cool in the snow before it could be handled. Eichstadt was one of three meteorite falls cited in a paper written in 1790 by the assistant director of the natural history collection in Vienna. The author sought to discredit the theory that stones could fall from the sky an idea that was deemed absurd by most reputable scientists and academics! Classified as an H5 chondrite, the TKW of this historic fall is ~3 kgs. This small specimen comes from the collection of Jurgen Nauber by way of Sergey V.
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