26 grams. 40x30x15mm. H4
TKW 15 kg. Fall not observed. Found in 1977, near Ybbsitz, Austria.
Herbert writes:
The Ybbsitz meteorite was found by Dr. Wolfgnag Schnabel during the 1977 mapping campaign of the Geological Survey of Austria. Dr. Schnabel did not immediately recognize it as a meteorite. However, he noticed the uncommon type of rock, so he hammered off a hand specimen for later study. It was finally recognized as meteoritic in 1979, when Dr. Elisabeth Kirchner, who has been working at the Institue of Meteoritics in Albuquerque before, studied a thin section made from the recovered specimen. Fortunately, Dr. Schnabel's notes where so precise that they allowed the recovery of the main mass and nearly all of the fragments that have been chipped off during the preperation of the hand specimens in 1980. The main mass, which is now on display in the Natural History Museum in Vienna (NHMV), has a mass of 11.9 kg, the total recovered weight of the Ybbsitz meteorite is 14.6 kg.
The 26 gram specimen (40mm x 30mm x 15mm) shown here is one of the fragments that have been chipped off during the preperation of the hand specimen. It is described as piece #14 in the paper by Schnabel (W. Schnabel: "Fund- und Entdeckungsgeschichte des Meteoriten Ybbsitz", Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, 87. Band, 1983, pp. 1-9). It was traded by the NHMV in 1997.
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