“A sensation” – for the first time since 1977 meteorite recovered in Austria


“Several dozen people have contacted us in the museum since the fireball was seen, but none of the stones found was a meteorite,” said the scientist. In the end, eight months after the case, a person who was in contact with Ferrière during the first searches came forward with the decisive find. Immediately Ferrière and his colleague Julia Walter-Roszjár drove to Kindberg to examine the rock and continue to search. The broken rock actually shows the typical black enamel crust and a gray interior with shiny metal grains as well as some thin melt veins, according to the scientists.