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.463 grams. Largest dimension 12 mm.   CV3

TKW 3 kg. Observed fall 15 April 1857, Kaba, Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary.


Zsolt writes:

The first CV3 carbonaceous chondrite found.

This piece of Kaba is probably the largest piece in private hands in the world. The surface is finely micro-plosihed, suitable for a microprobe. The images were taken with a Radical polarizing/reflected mineralogical microscope with 10 MPx CCD camera and image stacking process by MaximDL SW. You can see a CAI and two nice broken BO chondrules in the images in reflected light.

History of the fall (by Hungarian NHM):

Gábor Szilágyi, a smallholder in Kaba, was sleeping in front of his house when a peculiar noise raised him from his sleep. Waking up, he observed a very bright body falling for a few seconds. The same phenomenon was seen by many inhabitants of the neighbouring towns of Debrecen and Karcag. The next day, when Szilágyi was riding to his farm, his horse shied at something and resisted going further. Szilágyi looked around and caught sight of a black stone embedded in the cart-road. Later he and some of his neighbours dug out the stone. Originally it might have weighed 7 lbs [~4 kg], but its edges and tips were broken off here and there, presumably in searching for precious metals. The rest of the stone (5.25 lbs) was presented by the local council to the Reformed College in Debrecen.

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