Name in the NHM catalogue: Nagy-Vázsony
Locality*: Nagyvázsony, Veszprém megye [county], HUN
Co-ordinates: 46° 59' N, 17° 42' E
Fall/find: Find
Date of the find*: after 17.01.1890
Type (level 1): Iron
Type (level 2): Coarse octahedrite
Group: IA
Recovered weight*: 1980 g (one mass was found)
Synonyms*: Nagyvázsony
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: On 17.01.1890, János Koralovszky, a job-seeker miner observed a meteor fell apparently around Nagyvázsony village. He explored the supposed area of the fall and found a meteorite specimen in a gully. The specimen was donated through Mr Mayer-Gunthof to the Natural History Museum at Vienna. It proved to be a partly altered meteoric iron, i.e. not related to the observed meteorite.
Based on Brezina, A. (1896): Die Meteoritensammlung des k. k.. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Annalen des k.k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 10, 284 p.