Ensisheim meteorite
Stony meteorite which landed outside Ensisheim in present-day Alsace, France (1492) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492 in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Germany (now France). The meteorite can still be seen in Ensisheim's museum, the sixteenth-century Musée de la Régence. It is the oldest stony European meteorite fall from which there is still some meteoritic material preserved.
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Ensisheim meteorite | |
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Type | Chondrite |
Class | Ordinary chondrite |
Group | LL6[1] |
Country | France |
Region | Ensisheim |
Observed fall | Yes[2] |
Fall date | 7 November 1492 |
Found date | 7 November 1492 |
TKW | 127 kg (280 lb) |
The fall of the meteorite, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493. | |
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