Observed meteorite falls and chance meteorite finds in Germany
Observed meteorite falls and chance meteorite finds in Germany
The map on the left shows the location, official name, and year of discovery of 19 meteorites which were found by chance and recognised as meteorites, but whose fall was not observed. Among them is the ‘Blaubeuren’ meteorite, which fell to Earth long before its discovery in 1989, possibly some centuries ago. It landed in the valley of the river Blau near Blaubeuren, a picturesque medieval town 14 kilometres west of Ulm. The map on the right shows the name and year of fall of 33 meteorites in Germany the fall of which was directly observed. The ‘Blaubeuren’ meteorite is not included, but the map does include, among others, the meteorite ‘Neuschwanstein’, the fall of which was detected in 2002 by DLR’s meteorological observation network and whose fall area could be reconstructed geometrically. After the fall, three fragments of ‘Neuschwanstein’ were found.
