Zsadany

Name in the NHM catalogue: Zsadany
Locality*: Corneşti, judeţ [county] Timiş, ROM
Co-ordinates*: 45° 55' N, 21° 13' E
Fall/find: Fall
Date of the fall: 31.03.1875, 15:00–16:00
Type (level 1): Stone
Type (level 2): Chondrite
Type (level 3): Ordinary chondrite
Group: H5
Recovered weight: 552 g
Synonyms: Szadany
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: Several stones fell to the yards and gardens of the eastern part of the village and the neighbouring fields. No fire on the sky was seen, and the stones were cold when lifted from the ground. At first a noise similar to the roar of cannon was heard, then a chatter of gun, finally a peculiar boiling noise. On the notice by Zsigmond Ormos, Lord Lieutenant of Temes County, sent together with two meteorites, the Royal Hungarian Society of Natural Science sent two of its members to the spot. The commission was lead by József Krenner, head of the Department of Mineralogy and Palaeontology of the Hungarian National Museum. A systematic combing of the supposed strewn field produced only one further specimen, totalling the number of the recovered stones to nine. Four of the stones, weighing altogether 223 g, were later presented to the Hungarian National Museum.