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Menziswyl 46°49'07" N, 7° 1 3'05" E
near Tafers, Fribourg, Switzerland
Fall 1903 July
Stone. Chondrite. Ordinary (L5)
Approx. recovered weight: 28.9 g
Reported Met Bul. 77, Meteoritics 28, 891-897 (1994)

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Menzyswil
Near Taters, Fribourg, Switzerland
Fell 1903, July
Ordinary chondrite (L5)
Two pieces of this meteorite (24.8 and 4.1 g) turned up in a private meteorite collection. A label signed by M. Musy, then curator of the Fribourg Natural History Museum, says: "Found at Menzyswil July 1903 before a barn next to a hole, made by a flash of lightning. The farmers say that the stone fell with the lightning and shattered when it hit the ground; it was hot, when they picked it up."
Classification and analysis: olivine Fa23.5, pyroxene Fs20.6Wo0.5, plagioclase Ab86.9Or3.5

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The Menziswyl (L5) meteorite fell in Fribourg, Switzerland, in July 1903.
A total mass of 28.9 g was recovered.

46° 49' 7"N, 7° 13' 5"E



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