Rumanová

Name in the NHM catalogue: Rumanová
Locality*: Rumanová, okres [district] Nitra, Nitrianský kraj [province], SVK
Co-ordinates: 48° 21' N, 17° 52' E
Fall/find: Find
Date of the find: ??.08.1994
Type (level 1): Stone
Type (level 2): Chondrite
Type (level 3): Ordinary chondrite
Group: H5
Further data: W2; S3
Recovered weight: 4,3 kg
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 find: A stone was found near the village of Rumanová during harvest time. It got wedged between the blades of a harvester. To dislodge it, it was necessary to break it to pieces. The first analyses in the Geological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science proved that it was a meteorite. The stone had lain on the surface for at least several decades, because it was severely eroded. When the stone proved to be a meteorite, its finder, engineer Jozef Tehlár, presented it to the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava.