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.03g fragment (crumb). 5 x 3 x 2 mm. H5 TKW 3.42 kg. Observed fall 16 August 1928, Switzerland (near Bern). Scott writes:Ex: Don Edwards, Anne Black Picture 1 Utzenstorf fragment Picture 2: August 16th birthday party. Utzenstorf at left, with Putinga individual at right (fell 16 August 1937, in Brazil - see the MPOD for 12/2/2020) Here are some pics of a tiny crumb of this rare and historic meteorite— curiously, there haven’t been any meteorites to fall in Switzerland since this one in 1928. Peter Marmet’s web page shows some much nicer specimens and I’ll quote from Peter’s website: My favorite chondrite is without doubt the Utzenstorf H5 chondrite which fell in 1928 August 16 at 19:00 hrs during a thunderstorm. Utzenstorf is only 20 kilometers from Bern where I live and is only 5 kilometers from where I work ... so, from my workplace I can almost see the field where it fell about 80 years ago. On impact the stone broke into 3 pieces, totaling 3422 grams. They were discovered and recovered eleven days after the fall during fieldwork and then brought to the Natural History Museum in Bern where the main mass still resides today. You find pieces of the Utzenstorf meteorite only in a very few museums and in less than half a dozen private collections worldwide. I was able to get the last two pieces - 7.5 and 8.7 grams - that were traded with a French collector before the museum decided that it is no longer possible to trade Swiss meteorites. The Utzenstorf meteorite is - until today - the last observed meteorite fall in Switzerland... so the next one is overdue ...
Ex: Don Edwards, Anne Black Picture 1 Utzenstorf fragment Picture 2: August 16th birthday party. Utzenstorf at left, with Putinga individual at right (fell 16 August 1937, in Brazil - see the MPOD for 12/2/2020) Here are some pics of a tiny crumb of this rare and historic meteorite— curiously, there haven’t been any meteorites to fall in Switzerland since this one in 1928. Peter Marmet’s web page shows some much nicer specimens and I’ll quote from Peter’s website: My favorite chondrite is without doubt the Utzenstorf H5 chondrite which fell in 1928 August 16 at 19:00 hrs during a thunderstorm. Utzenstorf is only 20 kilometers from Bern where I live and is only 5 kilometers from where I work ... so, from my workplace I can almost see the field where it fell about 80 years ago. On impact the stone broke into 3 pieces, totaling 3422 grams. They were discovered and recovered eleven days after the fall during fieldwork and then brought to the Natural History Museum in Bern where the main mass still resides today. You find pieces of the Utzenstorf meteorite only in a very few museums and in less than half a dozen private collections worldwide. I was able to get the last two pieces - 7.5 and 8.7 grams - that were traded with a French collector before the museum decided that it is no longer possible to trade Swiss meteorites. The Utzenstorf meteorite is - until today - the last observed meteorite fall in Switzerland... so the next one is overdue ...
My favorite chondrite is without doubt the Utzenstorf H5 chondrite which fell in 1928 August 16 at 19:00 hrs during a thunderstorm. Utzenstorf is only 20 kilometers from Bern where I live and is only 5 kilometers from where I work ... so, from my workplace I can almost see the field where it fell about 80 years ago. On impact the stone broke into 3 pieces, totaling 3422 grams. They were discovered and recovered eleven days after the fall during fieldwork and then brought to the Natural History Museum in Bern where the main mass still resides today. You find pieces of the Utzenstorf meteorite only in a very few museums and in less than half a dozen private collections worldwide. I was able to get the last two pieces - 7.5 and 8.7 grams - that were traded with a French collector before the museum decided that it is no longer possible to trade Swiss meteorites. The Utzenstorf meteorite is - until today - the last observed meteorite fall in Switzerland... so the next one is overdue ...
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