Meteorite lands on roof in Poland

[Appollynon]

I wasn't sure if anyone else on site had seen this news piece yet, so I thought it was worth sharing.

A meteorite weighing about a kilogramme smashed into the roof of a Masurian agro-tourism farm in the village of Sołtmany, near Kruklanki, northern Poland.

Nobody was hurt but some damage was done to the roof.

Parts of the meteorite, which descended on Saturday causing some damage to a barn roof, was recovered by astronomers from Olsztyn, and will be examined by Professor Tadeusz Przylibski from Wrocław Technical University. Then it will be handed over to the Nicolas Copernicus Museum in Frombork or to the Planetarium in Olsztyn.

The meteorite, the biggest piece of which is about the size of a human fist, has also caused a stir in the Polish scientific community as it is the first planetoid fragment in 17 years to be recovered immediately after its fall to Earth.

Probably the specimen is a chondrite, a fairly common type of meteorite, derived from the belt of planetoids between Mars and Jupiter.

http://www.thenews.pl/national/artykul154669_meteorite-lands-on-roof--northern-poland.html

I thought this may have been part of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower which is meant to peak on the morning of the 6th of May? If so we may see other fragments making land fall or some more close encounters with them in our skies.

 

[Gawan]

I wasn't sure if anyone else on site had seen this news piece yet, so I thought it was worth sharing.

A meteorite weighing about a kilogramme smashed into the roof of a Masurian agro-tourism farm in the village of Sołtmany, near Kruklanki, northern Poland.

Nobody was hurt but some damage was done to the roof.

Parts of the meteorite, which descended on Saturday causing some damage to a barn roof, was recovered by astronomers from Olsztyn, and will be examined by Professor Tadeusz Przylibski from Wrocław Technical University. Then it will be handed over to the Nicolas Copernicus Museum in Frombork or to the Planetarium in Olsztyn.

The meteorite, the biggest piece of which is about the size of a human fist, has also caused a stir in the Polish scientific community as it is the first planetoid fragment in 17 years to be recovered immediately after its fall to Earth.

Probably the specimen is a chondrite, a fairly common type of meteorite, derived from the belt of planetoids between Mars and Jupiter.

http://www.thenews.pl/national/artykul154669_meteorite-lands-on-roof--northern-poland.html

I thought this may have been part of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower which is meant to peak on the morning of the 6th of May? If so we may see other fragments making land fall or some more close encounters with them in our skies.

Thank you for reporting Appollynon,

it is also covered on sott now!

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/228088-Meteorite-lands-on-roof-northern-Poland