The 30-kilogram ‘Blaubeuren’ meteorite
The 30-kilogram ‘Blaubeuren’ meteorite
It is a scientific sensation. In 1989, while digging a cable trench on his property in Blaubeuren, near Ulm, a resident came across a stone that seemed unusually heavy and had magnetic properties. The angular chunk of rock then lay in the garden for decades. After 31 years, the finder wanted to know for sure whether it could be a meteorite and he reported his find to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in January 2020. Only a few days later, it was clear that the find was indeed a stony meteorite with a mass of over 30 kilograms, the largest ever found in Germany. ‘Blaubeuren’, the official name given to the find by the Meteoritical Society, probably fell to Earth several hundred years ago, because its exterior shows strong signs of weathering.
