Stony meteorite which landed outside Ensisheim in present-day Alsace, France (1492)
Ensisheim meteorite
Ensisheim meteorite in the town's museum
Type
Chondrite
Class
Ordinary chondrite
Group
LL6[1]
Country
France
Region
Ensisheim
Observed fall
Yes[2]
Fall date
7 November 1492
Found date
7 November 1492
TKW
127 kg (280 lb)
The fall of the meteorite, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493.
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The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492 in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Germany (now France). The meteorite can still be seen in Ensisheim's museum, the sixteenth-century Musée de la Régence. It is the oldest stony European meteorite fall from which there is still some meteoritic material preserved.
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