Updated:2013-08-22

Meteorite Action!

2010-02-28 : Košice (Slovakia/Hungary)

Spatial and Temporal Informations

Location of fall
Košice (Slovakia/Hungary)
Date of fall
February 28, 2010 23h 24mn 46s LT
February 28, 2010 22h 24mn 46s UT

Video

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Meszlényi Tamŕs Video - Telki/Hungary
Video : Meszlényi Tamŕs (Telki, Hungary)

  • AVI (xvid) ( 344x258 ): 178 Ko
Daniella Fazzi Video - Örkény/Hungary
Video : Daniella Fazzi (Örkény, Hungary)

Daniella Fazzi Video - Örkény/Hungary
Video : Daniella Fazzi (Örkény, Hungary)

  • AVI (xvid) ( 384x288 ): 508 Ko
RTL Klub - news (Hungarian TV) Video
RTL Klub - news (Hungarian TV)

TV Noviny - News (Slovak TV) Video
TV Noviny - News (Slovak TV)

Photo

Slovakian research team and meteorites

 
Credit: dnes.sk
 Photos caught during the press conference

The main mass : 2.19 kg

 
Credit: dnes.sk
 

PhD Student Daiana Busova and météorite

 
Credit: dnes.sk
 

Jural Toth (Astrophysicist)

 
Credit: dnes.sk
 

Physical and kinetics Informations

Maximum absolute magnitude
-18
Sound
Cannon-like burst and series of low frequency blasts were heard.
Total known weight (TKW)
<4.431 kg (until 2010 )
<79 fragments:
  • March 20, 2010 : First stone found by Juraj Toth
  • Mass 0.5g to 2.19kg
Classification
Ordinary chondrite H5

Lien

Bulletin electronique Slovaquie numéro 14
Meteorite "Kosice" light Slovak night sky
May 3, 2010
Astronomical and geophysical observatory in modra
Meteorite “Kosice”, the fall in Slovakia
April 13, 2010
korzar.sk
Astronomers found the meteorite fragments in Vysné Klátov
March 31, 2010
March 31, 2010
March 6, 2010
aktualne.sk
Slovakia have a rarity: remains of a meteorite with pedigree
March 31, 2010
dnes.sk
In Vysné Klátov, 64 fragments of a meteorite found
March 31, 2010
March 4, 2010
hvezdarnicka.sk
Expedition meteorite Kosice - 6-8 April 2010 (second slovaque scientist expedition)
 
polandmet.com
Finding of Polish meteorite hunters
 
Siegfried Haberer - Meteorite
Kosice meteorite fall 28.Feb.2010 (german meteorite hunters, expedition July-August 2010, 6 fragments found)
 

Reference

Meteorite “Košice” - The fall in Slovakia
J. Tóth , J. Svoren , J. Borovicka ,P. Spurný , A. Igaz ,V. Porubcan , L. Kornoš , M. Husárik , Z. Krišandová ,P.Vereš and S. Kaniansky
IMC 2010 - Poster cession (2010)