Name in the NHM catalogue: Kis-Gyor
Locality*: Kisgyõr, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye
[county], HUN
Co-ordinates: 48° 1' N, 20° 42' E
Fall/find: Find
Date of the find*: 23.05.1901
Type (level 1): Doubtful
Group: No data available
Recovered weight*: >3,61 g
Synonyms*: Kisgyõr
Remark: Data from Grady, M. M. (2000): Catalogue of
meteorites. 5th rev. enl. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Data marked with an asterisk (*) are supplemented or
corrected.
History: Five specimens were donated in 1901 by Sámuel Nagy, notary of Kisgyõr village to the Borsod-Miskolc Museum at Miskolc. The geological collection of this musem was transferred to the Natural History Museum at Budapest ariund 1950. Tokody, L. & Dudich-Vendl, M. (1951): Meteorite collections in Hungary mentions one specimen on pages 35 and 89 as “meteorite”, without further data. Destroyed in the 1956 fire.
Based on Tóth-Szabó,
T. (2003):
Historical-museological data of the meteorite of Kisgyõr
(Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary). Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract
Ser. 1, 104.