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Still there are rare events which might have been falls of icy meteorites. In his work "A Magyar Birodalom meteoritjei" (The Meteorites of the Hungarian Realm), Török (1882) describes a meteorite fall, when the pieces of the meteorite were found in cold condition. This was the Zsadány Meteorite.
The fall happened on 31st March 1875, in the vicinity of the village of Zsadány, in Temes County, Hungary. (Zsadány, now it is called Jadani, belongs to Romania.) Between 3 and 4 p.m. after a great thunder from the clear sky a swarm of rather small pieces of meteorites fell to the fields and gardens of the village. (For the locality, see e.g. Herner, 1987.)
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No luminous meteor appears to have been observed at the time these stones fell; the day was bright and sunny and the sky cloudless. A sound as of platoon-firing was heard, and a small shower of black stones descended, some within the area of the village of Zsadány in the courtyards of the inhabitants, others in the open fields. They did not fall together, but at slight intervals, which appear to have been at least one-third of a minute. Some were picked up immediately they reached the ground, and were found to be cold. It may be mentioned here that the stones which fell at Dhurmsala, in India (1860, July 4th), are stated to have been so cold that they could not be held in the hand. 
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The Zsadany (H5) meteorite fell in Bekes, Hungary, on the 31st March, 1875.
A total mass of 552 g was recovered.

46° 56'N, 21° 30'E



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