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RE: Pultusk meteorite

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Title: Meteor observed on January 30, 1868, at Pultusk, Poland (translated by W. H. Haas)
Authors: Galle, J. G.

Concerning the Meteor Observed on January 30, 1868, which Fell thru the Atmosphere as a Shower of Stones at Pultusk in the Kingdom of Poland.

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Pultusk is an H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite which fell on 30 January 1868 in Poland. The event has been known as the stony meteorite shower with the largest number of pieces yet recorded in history.
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The Pultusk (H5) meteorite fell in Ostroleka, Poland, on the 30th January, 1868.
A total mass of 250 kg was recovered.

52° 46'N, 21° 16'E

The meteorite fall ocurred on the January 30, 1868, in the vicinity of the town of Pultusk, NE from Warsaw. The area of the fall was 127 km². The estimated total mass of the meteorites reached 8,863 kg and the number of the fragments counted 68,780. Most of the fragments had the mass of few gram, they have been called "the Pultusk peas". The largest found specimen weighted 9,095 g (J. Samsonowicz 1953).
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