75.34 gram end cut with original patina. Iron, IIIAB
TKW 108.5 kg. Fall not observed. Found 1814, Lenartovka Forest, Slovakia (then Hungarian Kingdom).
Zsolt writes:
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The main mass is in the Hungary NHM, Budapest, Hungary.
The meteorite was discovered in the end of October 1814, in the Lenartovka
Forest by a shepherd, under mud and decayed leaves, near a spring.
At first it was thought to be silver due to its shining lustre. The local
landowner, József Kapy, royal counsellor, bought the specimen and sent it
with the help of Mathias Sennowitz, naturalist in Eperjes (now Preov,
Slovakia), to the Hungarian National Museum. It was the first meteorite
specimen in the HNHM. Other specimens were distributed among other European
museums, e.g. a 5-lbs fragment to Vienna, where knives and swords were also
made of its material.
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