Name in the NHM catalogue: Mike
Locality*: Mike, Somogy megye [county], HUN
Co-ordinates: 46° 14' N, 17° 32' E
Fall/find: Fall
Date of the fall*: 13.05.1944, 18:30
Type (level 1): Stone
Type (level 2): Chondrite
Type (level 3): Ordinary chondrite
Group: L
Recovered weight*: >0,25 kg
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 of the fall: Following a few detonation resembling to the sound of an automatic gun, a few black stones, as big as a fist, fell to the village, amidst a whizzing noise. Other details are not known, as fierce aerial combats in the area diverted the attention from the meteorite fall. Only four specimens reached public collections because of wartime circumstances. The two smallest one (1.98; 33.14 g) were used as study material, the largest (139.43 g) specimen was destroyed in the 1956 conflagration of the museum, a 49,64 g piece is kept at the Eötvös University.