Name in the NHM catalogue: Mikolawa
Locality*: Mihályfa, Zala megye [county], HUN
Co-ordinates*: 46° 59' N, 17° 11' E
Fall/find: Fall
Date of the fall*: 05.01.1837, 17:07
Type (level 1)*: Very doubtful
Group: No data available
Recovered weight: No data available
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. Presumably only a
fireball, without any meteorite found.
History: The Catalogue of Meteorites (Grady, 2000) lists the Mikolawa meteorite as a doubtful stone from Hungary, and uncertainly locates its falling place at the NE margin of the Great Hungarian Plain. A survey of the contemporary sources revealed that the site was in fact in Zala county at Mihályfa. There is not any explicit statement on the recovery of a meteorite of any kind; the original account reports only the observation of a fireball to the west of the village. The day of the Mikolawa fall was also given incorrectly by Grady (2000).
Based on Papp, G. & Bartha, L. (2007): On the fireball observed at Mihályfa, Hungary, on 5 January, 1837, mistaken as the “Mikolawa meteorite”. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis Hungarici, 99, 207–210.