Kaba

Name in the NHM catalogue: Kaba
Locality*: Kaba, Hajdú-Bihar megye [county], HUN
Co-ordinates: 47° 21' N, 21° 18' E
Fall/find: Fall
Date of the fall: 15.04.1857, 22:00
Type (level 1): Stone
Type (level 2): Chondrite
Type (level 3): Carbonaceous chondrite
Group: CV3
Further data: Oxidised; Bali-type; S1
Recovered weight*: 4 kg
Synonyms: Debreczen
Remark: Data from Grady, M. M. (2000): Catalogue of meteorites. 5^th rev. enl. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Data marked with an asterisk (*) are supplemented or corrected.

History of the fall: Gábor Szilágyi, a smallholder at Kaba was sleeping in front of his house, when a peculiar noise raised him from his sleep. Waking up he observed a glaring body to fell in a few seconds. The same phenomenon was seen by many inhabitants of the neighbouring towns 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 pierced into the cart-road. Later he and some of his neighbours dug out the stone from the earth. Originally it might have weighed 7 lbs [~4 kg], but its edges and tips were broken off here and there, presumably for searching precious metals. The rest of the stone (5.25 lbs) was presented by the local council to the Reformed College in Debrecen.