The largest meteorite collection in Hungary is that in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Its history goes back to 1815. The collection also contains materials produced by cosmic impacts (tektites, impact rocks). Three catalogues of the collection have been printed so far. The first one was compiled by Andor Semsey and came out in 1886 separately and in 1887 as a paper in the Földtani Közlöny (Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society) in Hungarian and in German. The second catalogue is included in the Meteorite collections in Hungary (1951), a trilingual (Hungarian, English and Russian) book by László Tokody and Mária Vendl-Dudich. The third catalogue was published by Csaba Ravasz in 1969 in the first volume of the Fragmenta Mineralogica et Palaeontologica (periodical of the geological departments of the HNHM) and gave information about the specimens recovered and identified from the remains of the collections left by the 1956 conflagration of the museum. This electronic catalogue is an amended and updated, bilingual (Hungarian and English) version of this latter catalogue.

Data of the falls are from Ravasz, Cs. (1969): Catalogue of meteorites of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Fragm. Mineral. Palaeontol., 1, 3–110, and Grady, M. M. (2000): Catalogue of meteorites. Fifth edition. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Names, administrative unit and co-ordinates of the localities are corrected in some cases.

The electronic catalogue was made in 2004 supported by a grant of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

Based on a catalogue compiled by Csaba Ravasz. Additional data collecting: Antal Embey-Isztin, Tamás Fegyvári, Zoltán Gaál, Gábor Papp. Data entry: Tamás Fegyvári, Judit Fekete, Éva John, Gábor Papp. Translation: Judit Fekete, Gábor Papp. Layout of the electronic catalogue and programming: Ádám Kőrösi, Gábor Papp, Miklós Rajczy. Photos: Zoltán Szűcs, Gábor Papp, Andrea Pászti

Specimens can be searched in three ways.

Enter a meteorite name or its fragment (at least three characters), and choose a search option (the meteorite name starts with / matches / contains the word you typed in). Names or synonyms should be entered exactly as used by the Catalogue of Meteorites of The Natural History Museum, London (latest edition: Grady, 2000; web version: http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/). Incorrect spelling leads to an unsuccessful query. In this case a search using a fragment of the name (search option: contains) or the selection of the meteorite from the list obtained by a search according to country or to classification may help.

The name of the country can be chosen from the drop-down list.

Available categories can be chosen from four drop-down lists corresponding to different levels of classification. Only one category can be chosen at one go. Lists only contain categories represented among the specimens in the collection.

All kinds of search lead to the page of the initial list of results. It contains the name and the group symbol of the meteorites corresponding to the search term, in the alphabetical order of the name. A single fall can be chosen from that list at one go. Either the data of the selected fall, or those of the specimens from the selected fall can be listed.

Data of the specimens in the HNHM from the fall selected from the initial search list.

NHM name: Name of the fall as given in the Catalogue of Meteorites of NHM, London.

Catalogue number: Inventory number of the specimen.

Old catalogue number: Inventory number of the specimen used in the 1951 catalogue.

Piece(s): Number of pieces (xxx for fragments or powder).

Description: Brief description of the specimen.

Size (mm): Dimensions of the specimen (mm).

Weight (g): Weight of the specimen (g).

Remarks: Remarks to the data.

Image: Click on the inventory number in this box (if given) to open the photo of the specimen.

From this page you can jump to the page containing the data of the selected fall.

Data of the fall selected from the initial search list.

NHM name: Name of the fall as given in the Catalogue of Meteorites of NHM, London.

Co-ordinates: Geographical co-ordinates of the site of the fall or the place giving the name of the fall.

Locality: The locality (or the place giving the name of the fall) and its administrative unit.

Country: Name of the country where the meteorite fell.

Fall/find: Meteorite from an observed fall or meteorite find from an unknown fall.

Date: Date of recovery

Time: Hour of fall (local time)

Total weight: Approximate recovered weight.

Level 1: Classification, level 1.

Level 2: Classification, level 2.

Level 3: Classification, level 3 (for stones only).

Group: Group symbol.

Further data: Further (petrological/metallographical) data on the meteorite.

Data of the falls are from Ravasz (1969) and Grady (2000). Names, administrative division and co-ordinates of the localities are corrected in some cases.

From this page you can jump to the page containing the data of HNHM specimens from this fall or to the synonym list of the fall.

Synonyms of the name of the fall selected from the initial search list.

NHM name: Name of the fall as given in the Catalogue of Meteorites of NHM, London.

Synonyms: Synonyms of the name of the fall.

Data from Grady (2000).