Mezö-Madaras

Name in the NHM catalogue: Mezö-Madaras
Locality*: Mădăraş, judeţ [county] Mureş, ROM
Co-ordinates*: 46° 36' N, 24° 26' E
Fall/find: Fall
Date of the fall: 04.09.1852, 16:30
Type (level 1): Stone
Type (level 2): Chondrite
Type (level 3): Ordinary chondrite
Group: L3
Further data: Polymict breccia
Recovered weight*: 22,7 kg (other estimations: 50–60 kg)
Synonyms*: Fekete, Madaras, Maros, Mezoe-Madaras, Mezö-Madarasz, Mezőmadaras, Weiler
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: A fireball following a SW–NE trajectory exploded with thunderous rumbling (audible from Alba Iulia, Aiud, Turda, Cluj-Napoca, Târgu Mureş, Reghin) into a meteorite shower, which fell to an elliptical area, ~10 km long and ~4 km wide, with the Isten lake in its southern focus. People working near to the lake, at the Fekete manor, heard whizzing noises and see the stones fell. The size of the specimens increased from SW to NE, the largest one (18 lbs = 10,1 kg) is kept in the Natural History Museum in Vienna.